At 00:13 05/13/99 -0700, William Chops Westfield wrote:
>Still, I have a hard time imagining anything much more complex than this
>operating on the small PICs.  Shucks - the entire CHIP doesn't have as much
>"context" as the register set on a modern CISC chip :-)
>
>The rest of multi-tasking is mostly a matter of allowing each task to have
>more in the way of private context, more flexibility in giving up control to
>"the scheduler", more control of deciding when it needs to be "woken up",
>and more protection from the actions of badly behaved tasks.

you can do pretty complex things in this way, if you use state machines in
the tasks, with short state actions, returning regularly to the scheduler.

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