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-----Original Message-----
From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 2:31 AM
To: Ralph Hempel
Subject: Re: multitasker
> I have got the tasker to work, there's a bug in the pbFORTH kernel
> right now that'll keep you from using the words even if you
> uncomment them. I'll post version 1.0.3 with appropriate credits
> by Sunday evening or Monday at the latest...
>
> I'm going to get the MARKER word up and running next and should have
> the tasker demo running shortly.
Excellent news.
> I figured a decent demo would be three tasks, each looking at a sensor
> and then turning the corresponding motor on if the value is TRUE.
You can have our SpeedBot as a demo program (as soon as I get it to work).
I am currently stuck on the IR proximity detector, try as I might I cannot
get the FORTH version anything like as sensitive as the NQC. It is either
a subtle timing difference, or the fact that I can't get the IR
transmitter in "HI" mode (yet).
> I've left development alone for a few weeks to see if a user base comes
> out of the woodwork, so far you are the only one... :-(
Somehow I suspected that this might be the case, C/C++/Linux is all the
rage at the moment. My favourite language is Modula 2 (I have to make do
with Delphi as the only currently available commercially viable
alternative), but I figure that for robotics FORTH is far more
appropriate.
> Thanks for your support and encouragement so far!!!
Well, keep it up, I am only sorry there aren't more of us in the "user
base"
--
John Cooper, Wallington, UK
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