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webmasterpdx · 10-14-2017, 01:55 PM

That's one of my biggest fears. I love doing this stuff on a calculator as opposed to a laptop or a phone/ipad. Many people think the calculator is obsolete, but when you use a small tool like a calculator you become very intimate with it. When I use octave or matlab, I'm not as intimate as it's not right there at my fingertips. I'm hoping that HP keeps supporting high end calculators.

I really like the new numworks calculator.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/28/numw...alculator/

It's open source and supports python. The only problem is it doesn't have a full Cas system on it, and it's only a 100MHz processor. I'd love to see something like the numworks calculator with full CAS support, and running on a 1GHz (actually, I'd like the clock to be programmable to save battery life) CPU.....and with it's open source and python paradigm. Now that'd be a kickass calculator! :-)

Too bad HP won't support that, as they have to do this exam mode thing....and I understand this, as without that they lose a lot of the student market which is a big part of their market. It is possible to develop a calculator that could support exam mode and still allow a certain degree of hacking. Properly programming the MMU can protect any part you want to, including the MMU tables themselves.