Newbie Questions

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The Prime is an open device, as shown by the fact modified firmware upgrades just work ( http://tiplanet.org/hpwiki/index.php?tit...ware_files , http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?...29&lang=en - maybe replacing armfir.elf embedded into the FAT16 filesystem would just work ?), so it's bound to be rooted

As a newcomer to the HP community (I'm an old-timer of the TI community, where people are definitely interested in low-level tinkering with calculators), it's quite disappointing to see the HP community showing so little love to the powerful Prime... That can be explained by facts such as the low number of Prime calculators in users' hands, and the wide availability of devices even more open, much more powerful, and cheaper than the Prime - but still, it's currently the most powerful calculator on the market, it's an open platform, and it's virgin territory, perfect for tinkerers

Although it took years, and despite the fact that the hardware is undocumented (no public datasheet), Linux was eventually ported to the Nspire. Another page of TI-Planet's hpwiki contains links to Linux and QEMU-based emulators which support the same SoC as the one used by the prime.