What has the DM41 extra over the HP42s?

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(11-05-2020 05:24 AM)hth Wrote:  I had a look at the HP-42 manual. It seems you cannot define your own keyboard layouts. Is that true? They dropped this killer feature from the HP-41 and you compare the two calculators and think the HP-42 is better? What am I missing here?

Correct. The 42S does not allow you to define a "USER" keyboard like the 41C, but it does allow you to create custom menus each with up to 18 entries. Of course, nothing's to stop you defining one key in your custom menu to load up another custom menu so you end up with 34 entries at little cost compared to just 18.