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- From: brianw@iat.holonet.net (Brian Walsh)
- Subject: Re: Calculus package
- Message-ID: <C0Hy33.45u@iat.holonet.net>
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- References: <MHEISKAN.93Jan7135435@lk-hp-19.hut.fi>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:30:37 GMT
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- mheiskan@hut.fi (Mika Heiskanen) writes:
- : Calculus? I have Math Card made by SPARCOM. After some use a big
- : disappointment, after learning system rpl and machine language I'd be ashamed
- : to publish such a thing even as PD. User rpl all over the place and it shows
- : on the speed. Just a couple functions, most of the card is taken by the
- : browser and data for integration tables etc. Atleast I expect functions from a
- : good math package, tables are ok too but not if the browser stinks.
- :
- : So far I haven't seen any good SparCom card worth the money , but I know
- : they've hired atleast one good programmer so I can't condemn them forever.
- From the brief time I've seen the Calculus card it looks really good.
- Sparcom is making an effort to produce software written in sysRPL, whereas
- the earlier cards had a lot of (slow) user RPL.
-
- : Better check out seq.uncwil.edu:/hp48/math. Some of the programs in there are
- : very good.
- Definitely.
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- -- Brian Walsh
- brianw@holonet.net
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