General info on 48/49/50 ROM entry points

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(12-30-2017 11:55 AM)pier4r Wrote:  Thanks for the interesting post, anyway the bit quote above is interesting as well. Why is it in french? Was the Saturn CPU developed in France? Even so, was it only for the internal market? (otherwise a company would try to be as international as possible for its products)

I honestly don't know why this should be the case. All I do know is that the seminal documentation of the 48G/GX, for example, is in French in the form of the excellent book, "Voyage au Centre de la HP-48G/GX" by Paul Courbis. Back in the day I also had a hard copy of the equivalent book for the HP-28C/S. See http://www.courbis.fr. Let's not forget HP's own Cyrille de Brébisson and Bernard Parisse, who are native French speakers and who may have had some influence in the direction that things took.