[A83] Re: 83p os
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[A83] Re: 83p os
You've apparently never written a linux/unix device driver nor a real-time
kernel module. :)
corey
Aaron St.John wrote:
>> These limitations sort of kill the purpose of multitasking. If you
>> are limited to simple routines with no possibility of timing (own
>> interrupt handler), process management will be nothing more than a
>> useless overhead, and you are better of running your programs
>> sequentially.
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> I've written several very usefull multi-tasked programs under
> Windows, and I've never once written anything like an interupt
> handler or even directly accessed the hardware. That's the whole
> idea of an OS, to shield the user from the hardware. You should
> never need to write an interupt handler, you should be able to take
> care of everything you need (timing, input, output, memory
> management) through the OS.
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> Stupid like a fox!
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