For the same pricepoint you will pretty much be able to get an android tablet with many hundred megabytes of RAM and gigabytes of storage combined with WIFI, bluetooth etc. etc. But these devices will of course not be allowed on an exam.
Not saying that a regular calculator doesn't have advantages over a touch interface but damn are they overpriced and there sure are advantages to a tablet as well, being able to zoom a graph decently (fast) and having like a hundred times more real estate that you could easily copy+paste within etc.
Yes, I'd still want a real calculator but no, I would never buy one at the price point they sell today.
If you need serious calculating, there are all sorts of open source packages for Linux, and a number of devices of varying capabilities to run it on.
I find it not a little jarring that the kernel has been pasted together from code from other systems, not just inspired by code from other systems, in places. Is there a clear license statement I've missed? I'm assuming it's GPLv2, since it includes code directly from Linux, but it's hard to say even for those files since the license statements have been stripped.
Still, at least as neat as all of the excitement about the shocking new news that is a game including an emulator for a trivial, fanciful, microprocessor, and other things that Hacker News goes nuts over at great length and in a sustained way. If this is too old news for you, perhaps you'd like to read another iteration of how to hire software engineers (answer: don't), whether culture fit is racist (answer: probably), or how best to cloud your cloud cloud cloud Ruby cloud cloud bro cloud.
According to http://punix-os.blogspot.com.br/2012/03/floating-point-grays... they want to add support to PS/2 keyboards through an adapter.
This http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDeta... also seems like a good solution.
