HP Prime - worthy successor to HP-71B ?

[Steve Simpkin]

(02-05-2024 03:44 PM)StephenG1CMZ Wrote:  ...
Impressive documentation.
From a very quick look at it, I'm puzzled by several references to mainframe - which would normally have referred to large computers, whereas the HP-71 is a calculator.
Does mainframe have a special meaning in the context of the HP-71?

(02-05-2024 04:20 PM)KeithB Wrote:  HP-71 mainframe:
The calculator without considering any plug-in modules or accessories.
It is so expandable, you need to make this distinction.

The same "mainframe" term is also used to describe the HP-41C itself.
For reference, the hardware and software design of the HP-41C can be found in the Mar 1980 issue of Hewlett packard Journal magazine.
https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/Is...980-03.pdf