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- From: ralph.mason@liffe.com (Ralph Mason)
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- Subject: Re: 6502 Multitasking OS announce
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:06:36 GMT
- Organization: London International Financial Futures Exchange
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- Michael Ellis <michael@anest4.anest.ufl.edu> wrote:
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- >holger@deep.hb.provi.de (Holger Bruns) wrote:
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- >>An operating system for the 6502 should have some of the properties of CPM.
- >>Parameters could be passed into registers and some zeropage locations.
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- > The way to get around this is to pass all parameters on the stack, and use separate
- > stacks for the separate tasks.
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- All well & good BUT the 6502 does not have a relocatable stack pointer
- so your kinda left with a bit of a problem when it commes to
- multitasking, ie you cant give each process it's own stack without
- copying the whole stack ( maybe just to the current sp value? )during
- each context switch.
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- -Ralph Mason
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