43s/34s on Prime possible?

[walter b]

Please allow me to disagree. Although the 43S will be a bit larger than the WP 34S, it will still be shirt-pocketable and significantly smaller than a HP-50G or a Prime AFAIK. It's definitly not my intention to create a large vessel or support such work. Those are nice machines for (both kinds of) students obviously but not for a professional IMHO. I'm not in the education business in that matter - too tedious.

Maybe I have to repeat (I stated that more than once also on the old forum):

IF the 20b/30b had a reasonable display (at least like the 17bii)
OR IF the 17bii were repurposable
OR IF the 35S were repurposable and had a better keyboard layout
THEN we could have created something closer to the 42S on such a base.

Alas, the real world chose to be different, thus we created just the WP 34S. Sorry.

Thinking about progress, the best (and only) way AFAICS to overcome the limitations of the WP 34S is a scaled reptile. Its LCD is simply awesome (though a bit higher than I'd have chosen, but that will come handy with matrices). Its ovarall dimensions are reasonable still. AFAIK power consumption is low enough for a pocket device - what more can we wish for a tool? Well, unless we'd want to light the dark by fancy color displays or play games on it ...

Hope that explains my intention. I know of enough people sharing it to follow that path. YMMV

d:-I