That makes me wonder how much they will charge for the TI-Nspire SDK if it really comes outs and exists at all (I saw some talk about a possible one in March on TI-BANK forums a while ago)

it says its not even targeted to customers but to developers =o

that would be a first

haha, as if this will sell properly, if it is actually hoping to compete with dell, sony, acer etc. well good luck!!!! hehe

On the other hand, despite TI calculators' crappiness, they still outsell Casio, HP, et al. by far

True. The old ones were friggin slow, though. I also wish the color one had ASM support and that the newer ones had a better BASIC interpreter (right now it's considerably slower than TI-BASIC, considering the hardware it runs on)

The newer Casio calcs got ASM support, but only in add-on's form (kinda like Flash apps, no Asm(prgmNAME) or the like, so no BASIC extension like Celtic III, although there's a CPU speed changer for the 9860G.

Classpad 300 originally didn't support 3rd party dev, like the Nspire, but 2 years later, Casio answered requests from the community by releasing a SDK. I think only C is available, not ASM, though, but I could be wrong.

Basically the Casio calcs supporting ASM/C are the Algebra FX, Graph 85/Casio FX-9860G and Classpad series. One person managed to run third-party ASM code on the Color FX calcs, but to do so, he had to do hardware changes on the ROM chip.

Yeah, unless that changed. At least, we can give some props to Casio for listening to customers about Classpad 3rd party dev (although they did not, for fixing bugs in the Classpad OSes, if I remember ) and for creating the world's first graphing calc, the FX-7000G, in 1985, 5 years before the TI-81 came out.

Their BASIC interpreter is still worse than TI, though.

I don't own any non-TI graphing calcs myself- my dad has an HP-48 (SX, I think), though. Which does have assembly support.

I wonder if Casio calcs have as large a dev community as TI...

Well, there's casiocalc.org, which (unlike ticalc.org) is both a forum and a file archive. (And likewise, there's hpcalc.org for HP calcs, although it's not a forum). You could look around there.