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- From: 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young)
- Subject: Re: HP95 scientific calculator
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.182222.1561@williams.edu>
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- Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
- References: <20215@acorn.co.uk> <1992Nov19.060608.9096@williams.edu> <20276@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:22:22 GMT
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- >Providing the functions that are directly accessable from the keyboard of
- >the 48 would also be useful, though a number of these are already in the
- >19B. As far as the user interface goes, I agree that the menu system can
- >be a pain on the 95, more so than the 48, but the more options you have, the
- >harder it is to map them all to keys.
- >
- >It would be beneficial to stay with the same format as the built in calculator
- >and possibly try and interface to it, rather than directly replace it. Or
- >is this difficult? It just may save a lot of work if you use whats already
- >there.
- >
- Actually this would be pretty hard. The built in clalculator uses
- proprietary HP math routines which are not directly available to other
- applications. It might be possible to have a program call the
- calculator and then try to figure out the calls to the calc's
- functions but I think it would just be simpler to roll your own as it
- were.
-
- >
- >Andy Smith
-
- Jonathan Young
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-