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Multitasking
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth
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Wed, 3 May 2000 15:44:17 GMT
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SJM@JUDGEMENT.COMspamless
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Does the prompt handler (CLI) do multitasking?
In otherwords if a new task is started and control
returns to the CLI will the new task ever run?
I think I am asking whether it calls PAUSE in
a loop while waiting for user input?
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | RE: Multitasking
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| (...) Yes, indeed it does. But the catch is that if you're NOT in the CLI and spinning on something, you don't get anything else done (DUH!) Steve, you sound like you know multitasking issues. Sorry if what I said in a previous post implied (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | Multitasking questions
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| 1) scripts/muldemo.txt uses the word HAT instead of ALLOT_TASK. Does HAT actually exist or is this left over from hforth. 2) Tasking by convention? When do tasks switch? PAUSE obviously. Does AWAKE actually context switch or only mark the task as (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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