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| Hi All, If this is old news, ignore it... I just figured out this weekend (thanks Kekoa) that the H8/300 stack pointer (r7) and the power-down function in the RCX have a close relationship. The stack pointer MUST be in the on-chip RAM area (0xFD80 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | Re: Idle process
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| I guess my earlier posting got out after all. I got the message from the NNTP server telling me to register. That is why a slightly different version of my message appears later in the group. (...) I plan to keep the idle task, now that I understand (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) The idle task actually has the lowest priority in my scheme, but there was some efficiency gained in making the task list loop around. If the idle task is always there, it makes for simplified code in multitasking startup if you rely on that. (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Sorry this message is so late, I had to get registered for posting from my work address. (...) I, too, consider power saving to be a valuable (indispensible) feature. That is precisely the sort of thing that I feared I might be overlooking. Up 'till (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) I, too, consider power saving to be a valuable (indispensible) feature. That is precisely the sort of thing that I feared I might be overlooking. Up 'till now, I had not worked on an embedded project which would benefit from using (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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