i might be missing something but i haven't seen any mention of x48. HP has made the ROMs available for folks to use with the emulator. sure beats slurping the ROM over the serial cable from your HP48. this is a great way to see how the HPs actually work. On 7/20/06, dalan at visi.com <dalan at visi.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 at 01.35.03 -0500, Chuck Cole wrote: > > > Several kinds of applications require more than 8 digit precision. > > > HP calculators are the only ones that have at least 10 digits of > > > precision throughout. We could not use TI scientific calculators except > > > as slide rule replacements because of their 8 digit limited precision. > > > Discovering that 8 digits was not enough at all in these applications > > > made a deep impression on me. > > > > > > Many releases of Linux have a tool called ORPIE which is a visual RPN > calculator. Maybe you could use that, it is also available for Cygwin. > > Just a though. > > Don S. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- steve ulrich <sulrich at botwerks.org>