I'm tempted to agree about the stack - for the last quarter-century my calculator of choice (and it's right here now) has been a HP41CV.
Back then, though, IBM perceived the lack of a stack as a marketing _adantage_. The competition (Burroughs, CDC, ICL) was all stack-based. The previous generations of machine in the UK market that IBM was trying to address - e.g., the KDF9 - were also stack machines. You can turn any feature or the lack of a feature into a benefit with enough marketing. Look at the inanity surrounding the very ordinary iPhone. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
