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- From: fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de (Andre Fachat)
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- Subject: Re: 6502 Multitasking OS announce
- Followup-To: comp.sys.cbm,comp.os.misc,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.apple2.programmer,comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 09:13:06 GMT
- Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
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- agent@siu.edu wrote:
- : Instead of copying the stack to and fro on every task switch, how about
- : subdividing it? Each task would be allocated a portion of the stack. A
- : task switch moves between the portions by adding or subtracting numbers
- : from the stack register.
- Except for the allocation stuff, this is exactly what is done in my OS
- without an MMU.
- But I would rather call it Multithreading now than Multitasking as with
- MMU, as all tasks use the very same memory.
-
- Andre
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