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From: hacker@isadora.ikp.liu.se (Goran Larsson [Hacker of Hackefors])
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Subject: Re: RPN Calculators
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Date: 12 Nov 89 13:07:03 GMT
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In article <6328@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
>I've always found HP calculators refreshingly simple to use, but "algebraic"
>calculators are a mess because they are sometimes infix and sometimes
>postfix, ...

The same argument can be used againts the postfix HP calculators:
    "1 STO 5" to store 1 in memory register 5, that's INFIX!
    It should have been "1 5 STO", that's POSTFIX.

(don't know about the new machines like 28s)

>(OK, I do have to confess that I like Forth!)

same here :-)

>Tom Almy
>toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
>Standard Disclaimers Apply

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