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Is the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition allowed on high-stakes exams?
If you check the comparison chart, you will see that the calculator is confirmed to have 3.5 MB of archive, but 21 KB of RAM (3 KB fewer than the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition, 5 KB fewer than the TI-82 STATS and 7 KB fewer than the TI-82).
(4:54:01 PM) OmnomIRC: (O)<calc84maniac> 84 Plus C SE has no 3D graphing(4:54:06 PM) OmnomIRC: (O)<calc84maniac> CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Xeda, actually, I'm starting to suspect seriously my idea that they've completely eliminated RAM paging in order to allow the extra archive to map into pages 80-FF. So available RAM will continue to decrease.
21 K of user memory, 154 K of video RAM. There is a serious fracking engineering WTF. Also, why is there a 3 K decrease in available user memory? Previously, TI has allocated new memory for new static OS vars in off-page RAM. Have they decided to eliminate that RAM entirely?Quote from: FAQIs the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition allowed on high-stakes exams?Yup, the TI-84+C SE can be used on exams that will determine your ULTIMATE FATE IN LIFE.On the comparison chart, they list a "MathPrint everywhere" feature. This suggests that pretty printing will be available in other edit buffer contexts. That's a definite UI improvement, but it will break some of our existing tools. TI's anti-hacking staffers must be nigh-orgasming.
My worry is that the graph buffer is stored directly into Flash.
My prediction is this: They will keep this silly layout, wasting 48 K of flash, instead of using some more of those aptly-named boot sectors.
I also hope that MathPrint can still be disabled. It's annoying.