News from Swiss Micros

[Steve Simpkin]

(05-29-2021 01:05 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  

(05-29-2021 03:42 AM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  Maybe, but the HP-32S does have 16 keys that open menus so it is not completely without menus. The HP-32S II has 14 menu keys. Also is the firmware still under HP copyright for these models?

Quite true, but I wouldn't call them "complex" menus. In fact the 32SII added a second shift key and reduced the number of menus, and in some cases flattened them (the x register tests, for instance).

I believe these firmwares are still copyrighted, so if SM were to do a 32SII+ (that's a big 'if'), it would have to be a clean-room reimplementation like Free42.

Interesting points. However if they were planning to do a clean-room reimplementation, without using existing HP calculator firmware, I would expect them to stick with native ARM code rather than emulating the Saturn.