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[Thomas Okken]

(02-19-2016 09:50 PM)JimP Wrote:  

(02-19-2016 09:38 PM)Den Belillo (Martinez Ca.) Wrote:  Folks who have purchased something from Swiss Micros are receiving notice about the coming DM42L.
There's a link to a Youtube vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=314JMYJE...e=youtu.be
Great news.

OK I was toying with getting a DM-41L but I think this is going to be the one I will get. Is there any indication on how much memory this new beauty will have, or will it be precisely the same as the HP42S?

I'm a bit late joining this thread, but since it seems that this specific question has gone unanswered so far, I thought I'd chime in.
Swiss Micros contacted me a few weeks ago, sending me the link to that same video. The reason they contacted me is because DM42L runs Free42.
So, no, not *precisely* like the HP-42S. They didn't tell me about hardware specifications, but I assume those aren't a secret. In any case, Free42 uses RAM at about twice the rate of the 42S, because variables take up 16 bytes instead of 8, programs are stored in a less compact format, and system overhead is larger. Still, even with 32 kilobytes of available RAM, you'd already be able to run anything that anyone has ever written for the 42S, and it seems likely that DM42L will have significantly more than that.