> > If you go for the easy approach: each routine must run up to a fixed
> > point (so you know it was not executing a subroutine, and 
> you know where
> > it was) you have reduced your multitasking to a set of finite-state
> > machines, which can indeed be done on a 14-bit core. Google 'pic
> > pumpkin'.
> 
> This sounds pretty much like the cooperative multitasking 
> Olin (and others) were talking about.

Yes, of course. Did I give another impression? What I meant to say is
when you apply a lot of restrictions on your program structure you sort
of can do multitastking, but it is realy just a glorified bunch of state
machines. I would not even call it cooperative multitasking, because you
can't call schedule-next-task from within a called subroutine.

Wouter van Ooijen

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