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- From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: J is for Joke...
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 22:22:47 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <2b4fb7d3.2612comp.sys.hp48@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com> akcs.mmorgan@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Buckminster was crazy) writes:
- >Why I don't believe in Rev. J.....
- >
- >80186, 80286, 80386, 80486...
- >
- >A, B, C, D, E, J??????
-
- so what's your point? Is this little exercise in inductive reasoning
- supposed to prove something?
-
- It's pretty common knowledge about HP's development cycles that after
- they ship one version, E for example, they increment to the next letter,
- so F would have been the version of software HP would have worked on;
- then HP tested it, made revisions and then went to the G ROM versions,
- then H, and maybe J (some places won't make a version I or version O,
- for letter-number confusion reasons). So obviously the ROM went through
- versions F G H J or F G H I J before actually being released TO THE PUBLIC.
-
- The HP 28S was a version BB, and the version AA never existed in production,
- just as the HP48S ROM versions F through H/I existed only in test batches.
-
- >
- >Anyway, three of my friends just bought HP 48 SX's from a place that
- >does a brisk business, Calc. Inc. The place is usually out of
- >calculators and is continuely getting new shipments in. Not one of
- >these three calculators is a rev. J, which isn't all to surprinsing.
- >
- this anecdotal evidence doesn't prove much.
-
- besides there have been confirmed sightinhs of the J ROM...
-
- >
- >Mike Morgan
- >M00012@KANGA.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
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