What models use "HP-48 style" enter?
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03-14-2020, 04:53 PM
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RE: What models use "HP-48 style" enter?
(03-10-2020 07:33 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote: Another shorter explanation might be from Bill's August 1987 HP Journal article "An Evolutionary RPN Calculator for Technical Professionals". A very good reference, thanks! For the benefit of other readers, two relevant quotes from the article: The memory stack is a stack of 5-nibble object pointers, not the objects themselves. The objects are stored either in a temporary object area or in user variable memory. Thus, when an object on the stack is duplicated, only the pointer is duplicated. ___________________________________________________ The centerpiece of RPN keyboards has always been the ENTER key. On previous calculators the ENTER operation terminates digit entry, copies the contents of the X register into the Y register, and then disables stack lift. On the HP-28C, the concept of stack lift disable has been eliminated (with an indefinite-depth stack, it serves no purpose and would only add confusion), and the role of the ENTER key has been generalized to mean "parse and evaluate the command line." |
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