A sweet little poll about the WP 31S layout

[Marcus von Cube]

(04-15-2014 07:57 AM)anetzer Wrote:  Get me right: The 34s is a perfectly balanced and elegant machine, given the hardware constraints, but I never quite understood, how HP could go away from the downright solid approach of XEQ ALPHA Something] ALPHA. It kept the keyboard clean and you never had to think a minute, in which menu this or that instruction might hide.

Don't blame HP for something they aren't responsible for. It's "WP", not "HP".

As for your argument: I don't like [Alpha]something[Alpha] at all without a dedicated alpha keyboard. The best you can get is a catalog with alpha navigation. WP 34S (and WP 31S, too) have this feature built in. In WP 34S we just don't have enough memory to implement a full catalog of all functions. The latter would be even better than your beloved Alpha sequence because there is no need to type more letters than are unique for the command. As it is implemented now you just need to know the catalog a command resides in.

This is what I found out about Rumpelstilzchen: http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/Rump...tskin.html