Custom Menus on High-End RPL Machines

[Thomas Okken]

(04-02-2019 11:53 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Would you guess that the 42S FOCAL processing was actually based on the 41CV Emulator card code? Now that you've pointed out the similarity, it's an obvious method they could have used, but I never even thought about how similar these 2 are, and never gave it even a moment's thought that it could have been built from the emulator code.

Does the 41CV Emulator Card have the same numerical range as the 42S and the RPL machines, or is it 10-digit with 2-digit exponent like the real 41?

There could be more subtle clues as well, for example, in programs, the real 41 inserts a null byte (that doesn't disappear after PACKING) between two consecutive numbers, while the 42S inserts a null byte before every number, as in

Code:

00 { 2-Byte Prgm }
01 1
02 END