anthony@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) (03/08/91)
In article <39888@cup.portal.com> jpser@cup.portal.com (John Paul Serafin) writes: >Jeff E Mandel MD MS writes: >... >, >>Sharp/Casio/Psion/etc. Basically, these people are tired of having to read 50 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>postings a day about issues relating to the HP48. >... >Since none of the above even come close to being computers (as opposed to >having computers in them), perhaps their users should figure out what >they are and start a group in some other heirarcy. The Psion Organiser series are full computers, here is a list of commands in the built in language, OPL. functions abs, addr, asc, atan, cos, count, day, deg, disp, eof, err, exist, exp, find, flt, free, get, hour, iabs, int, intf, key, len, ln, loc, log, menu, minute, month, peekb, peekw, pi, pos, rad, recsize, rnd, second, sin, space, sqr, tan, usr, val, view, year string functions chr$, datim$, dir$, err$, fix$, gen$, get$, hex$, key$, left$, lowers$, mid$, num$, right$, rept$, sci$, upper$, usr$ commands append, at, beep, break, close, cls, continue, copy, create, cursor on/off, delete, do/until, edit, erase, escape on/off, first, global, goto, if/elseif/else/endif, input, kstat, local, next, off, open, onerr, pause, pokeb, pokew,position, print/lprint, raise, randomize, rem, rename, return, stop, trap, update, use, while/endwh Here is a sample function to calculate factorials from the manual: fact:(n) if n=0 return 1 endif return n*fact:(n-1) All functions including those user defined are callable from the calculator mode. Psion also makes available to anyone who asks, an MS-DOS based assembler for the 6303X processor used in the Psion Organiser. One of the biggest users of Psion hanhelds are corporations that use them for custom applications. They range from point of sale terminals to remote data collection and analysis. Printers, modems, barcode readers (the wand is HP's), mag card readers and other devices are available that all plug into the top expansion port. The two side ports can hold from 8KB to 2MB of RAM or EPROM (the Oraniser has a built in EPROM programmer) each. Commercial software includes a Lotus 123 compatible spreadsheet (Jaguar? what's that?), an equation solver, enhanced scientific functions library, a spell checker, various databases, and word processors. The Psion archive that I maintain has over 300KB (compressed) of free software with more to come from Psion BBSs in the US and Europe. -- <-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony Psion Mailing List subscriber submissions psion ----------\ the (human) moderator psion-owner -------+--@csd4.csd.uwm.edu subscriptions and file requests psion-request ----/
akcs.kevin@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Kevin Jessup) (03/08/91)
I propose one additional group...
comp.sys.should_we_split?