HP-25 vs. SR-56 - HHC 2016 Follow-up

[Valentin Albillo]

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Hi, Gene:

(10-07-2016 08:03 PM)Gene Wrote:  "95% of the time, 100 unmerged steps (GW- the SR-56) is better than 50 merged ones."

Of course there is a "all other things being equal" statement, which we know they are not.

Right you are, they are not.

For instance, the SR-56 allowed you to call subroutines (nested up to 4 levels deep) and use DSZ (decrement and skip on zero) and its inverse, neither of which were available in the HP-25 at all, thus making much better use of those 100 progamming steps, unmerged or not, not to mention the fact that it could also interact with an optional printer to provide printed output and extremely handy program listings. Which, alas, the HP-25 couldn't either.

Best regards.
V.
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