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Do I dare to use my 41?
10-27-2018, 04:50 PM
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RE: Do I dare to use my 41?
(10-27-2018 04:07 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  Well, given the available opcodes I tend to concur, but I have a clear image in mind of a 42S box with the printed banner advertising it as a 15C replacement.

You're responding to Sylvain saying

(10-27-2018 01:30 PM)Sylvain Cote Wrote:  It's only near the end of the development phase that the management changed their idea and turned it into a HP-15C replacement.

Given the phrasing "I tend to concur ... but ..." it sounds like you are disagreeing with something, but I can't figure out what. Smile

BTW, Despite HP management deciding to market the 42S as a 15C replacement (*), the person who decided to put the number 42.0000 i41.0000 in the display, in the photo on the cover of the manual, clearly had a different point to make.

Given the big change in direction late in development, I wonder what, if any, of the removed functionality ended up as zombie code, still in the ROM but never used? Like the [MIN], [MAX], and [FIND] functions, that apparently didn't get management blessing but ended up hidden instead of removed...

(*) Did they only do that in certain markets, or only shortly after launch? I don't remember mine having that kind of banner or sticker, neither on the box nor on the manual.
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RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Leviset - 10-24-2018, 06:25 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Zaphod - 10-24-2018, 06:39 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Craig Bladow - 10-25-2018, 01:00 AM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Garth Wilson - 10-25-2018, 06:20 AM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Dave Britten - 10-25-2018, 12:41 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - burkhard - 10-25-2018, 05:01 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Sylvain Cote - 10-25-2018, 05:27 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Garth Wilson - 10-25-2018, 08:36 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - burkhard - 10-25-2018, 08:45 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Zaphod - 10-25-2018, 09:40 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - aurelio - 10-25-2018, 10:20 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - hth - 10-25-2018, 05:08 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - BruceH - 10-26-2018, 10:28 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Dave Britten - 10-27-2018, 01:26 AM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Sylvain Cote - 10-27-2018, 01:30 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Garth Wilson - 10-27-2018, 05:14 AM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Thomas Okken - 10-27-2018 04:50 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Ken S - 10-27-2018, 05:14 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Sylvain Cote - 10-27-2018, 10:38 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - rprosperi - 10-29-2018, 12:56 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Zaphod - 11-03-2018, 07:37 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - BruceH - 10-28-2018, 11:34 AM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Dave Britten - 10-28-2018, 01:49 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Jlouis - 10-28-2018, 01:49 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Jlouis - 11-02-2018, 03:51 AM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Jlouis - 11-03-2018, 06:42 PM
RE: Do I dare to use my 41? - Sukiari - 11-02-2018, 03:58 AM



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