News from Swiss Micros

[Dave Britten]

(05-29-2021 01:15 PM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  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.

Yeah, that's the strange part. All of the Saturn-based calculators are copyrighted ROMs, right? So what's the impetus for using a Saturn emulation if it's going to be their own code running on it?

In any case, the 32SII is the only existing model I can think of that could be considered an entry-level, RPN, keystroke-programmable calculator without overwhelming menus, and running on a Saturn. Unless they're going to make a 20SII with RPN.