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- From: ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: Hp48 and TI85 compared
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.172418.21728@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 17:24:18 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.210022.15328@utagraph.uta.edu> <1992Aug20.023308.6024@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Aug20.155413.21319@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Reply-To: ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <1992Aug20.155413.21319@unixg.ubc.ca>, george@unixg.ubc.ca (George chow) writes:
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- |>>>==========================================================================
- |>>>Plotting and Graphing
- |>>>
- |>>>The TI85 plots a bit faster than the HP48.
- |>>
- |>>!!!!
- |>
- |>I've always wondered why the HP48 is so slow at plotting. My Casio fx-8000G
- |>also beats my 48sx at plotting. The only calculator that's slower than my
- |>HP is the Sharp Super-Scientific.
- |>
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- I suspect the problem is because the plotting stuff, and just about every
- other high-level feature on the HP48SX, is written in system RPL, rather than ML. This is largely why the equation writer is so slow.
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- >>>Joe
-