Why no SOLVE & INTEGRATE commands on the 41C?

[Didier Lachieze]

(01-15-2020 07:20 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote:  

(01-15-2020 01:46 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  ....

The 41 could have included them (notwithstanding issues like ROM space and available opcodes) but that would have essentially 'obsoleted' the 34C less than a year after introduction.

Hi Bob,

If you think about it, that would have obsoleted the 34C less than a month after introduction, since the 34C was introduced on July 1st and the 41C on July 16th :-)

Well, not really as the 34C was introduced one month after the 41C : the 34C was announced on August 15, 1979 along with the 33C and 38C (see PPC Journal - V6N5p2 – HP Status).