IIRC, Avenard ultimately wound up working for HP on their calculators, which I believe is how MetaKernal wound up as part of the core 49G ROM.
One of the more significant new parts of the 49 software is the 'Meta Kernel', which was externally developed by Jean-Yves Avenard as a 48 extension. The software gaps between the 48GX and the later 49 can be made up by installing software into a 48, if that turns out to matter for you. Both represent the end of the line of HP's traditional hardware engineering, which is such a significant part of using these devices. What would you say is the final model that 'has it'?įor me, at least, probably the combination of the 48GX and 42S.
