Why no SOLVE & INTEGRATE commands on the 41C?
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01-15-2020, 02:25 PM
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RE: Why no SOLVE & INTEGRATE commands on the 41C?
(01-15-2020 02:06 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:(01-15-2020 04:46 AM)hth Wrote: Fitting it into opcode table would not have been too hard, it has several rather dubious instructions, ADV, CLRG, DEC, OCT are good candidates to be left out. There are also a couple of unused slots, though I do not know how easy it would be to make use of them. Agreed, Octal was low level predominant and remained so for at last a few more years until hex (and 16-bit) architectures were commonplace. [In 1979 I have no doubt the PDP-11 was the predominant mini however already in decline with the VAXen.] HP-28S (1988 US model), DM41X (2020) |
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