Calling the HP50g numeric solver from within RPL?

[John Keith]

(05-18-2020 12:10 AM)Cristi Neagu Wrote:  HP dropped the 50g. With it, they dropped the professional oriented RPN calculators and chose to focus on the educational oriented algebraic calculators. Nothing wrong with that, HP is trying to stay alive. But what that means is that they don't see a future in 50g style machines.

So... Can't we try and petition HP to consider releasing the source code for the 50g to the community under an open source licence? Then people could, for starters, fix the bugs that are still present. Then maybe it could be converted to run straight on the ARM processor, delivering a huge performance boost. That would be huge for the newRPL project, i would imagine.

I largely agree with you and I would certainly like HP or someone (Swiss Micros?) to make a modern RPL calculator. Otherwise for HP to make a programmer friendly version of the Prime with full RPL.

However, NewRPL is a separate, platform-independent system written in C and not binary-compatible with Saturn code (i. e. No SysRPL).