[comp.sys.hp] 28C list object

allard@bnl.UUCP (rick allard) (05/09/87)

What is the object list good for on the 28C?  I don't have one yet but
took a fairly long look at the 2 manuals at the shop and only found 2
references to lists.  They are brief examples and if I remember one
was an output convention.
Rick

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ln63szb@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins) (05/11/87)

In article <110@bnl.UUCP> allard@bnl.UUCP (rick allard) writes:
>What is the object list good for on the 28C?  

I use it like a list in Lisp; it's a very convenient data structure
for handling arbitrary types of data together in a collection.
It can function as a set, as a string, or as an array, among
other possibilities.  It is also necessary for some of the programming
statements, which take arguments in a list.

In article <109@bnl.UUCP> allard@bnl.UUCP (rick allard) writes:
>Will the 28C be followed by another model?  Two in the model line
>seems a small number.  Has anyone heard any rumors?  What is a
>reasonable augmentation of its features?

Two in the line?  What's the second?

Topping my wish list for additional features is more memory
(what it has is pitifully insufficient) and some additional 
means for program i/o (for convenient archival purposes.)
But alas, HP, knowing exactly what the end user wants, limited
its expansion.

grobbins
ln63szb@sdcc13.ucsd.edu

paddock@melpad.UUCP (5 Steve Paddock) (05/13/87)

The following is posted for a friend with connections at HP:

|In article <109@bnl.UUCP| allard@bnl.UUCP (rick allard) writes:
||Will the 28C be followed by another model?  Two in the model line
||seems a small number.  Has anyone heard any rumors?  What is a
||reasonable augmentation of its features?
|
The 28C is designed to be a catch-all, do-all, don't need different
models, so, don't hold your breath.

|Two in the line?  What's the second?

The second is a follow-on to the 12C, and is a business oriented
product.
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