Hello,
some claimed that HP 33S memory capacity (more than 31000 bytes) is more than 80 times bigger than HP 32SII poor and lonely 384 bytes. It was on a site where this model was sold (don't remember which).
Sadly, HP 32SII had some good features that HP 33S has not:
I) first of all instructions on the 33S take 3 average bytes instead of the 32SII 1.5 bytes; this quite halves the total ratio!
II) second, integer numbers in the range 0รท254 (that were optimized in the 32SII to 1.5 bytes instead of the 9.5 of all other numbers) are not more optimized in the 33S;
III) any number now takes 15 bytes (integer or not). This reduces again the total ratio, that now is around 25 times.
I think necessity sharpens the brains, and that programming was much more beautiful on my now dead HP 32SII; probably I'll get used with this impersonal machine, and I'll start to love it, some day. But for the moment, I miss my HP 32SII!
-- Antonio
Edited: 14 Mar 2006, 10:33 a.m. after one or more responses were posted