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Subject: 
Re: Tasks vs. program slots
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
Date: 
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 23:55:56 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDMnospam.ORG
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Dave Baum <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote:
There is no known programmatic way of transferring control from one
program to another.

This is why it might be nice to get the remote control reverse engineered --
we may discover a way.

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: Tasks vs. program slots
 
(...) The remote control always sends the same sort of packet: d2 xx yy where xxyy is a sixteen bit bit-field indicating what features should be activated: xxyy 0001 Message 1 0002 Message 2 0004 Message 3 0008 Motor A Forward 0010 Motor B Forward (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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  Re: Tasks vs. program slots
 
(...) RCX contains 5 programs. Each program can have up to 10 tasks and 8 subroutines. Only one program may run at any given time, multitasking is between tasks in the same program. There is no known programmatic way of transferring control from one (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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