Re: TIB: Multitasking
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Re: TIB: Multitasking
Rene Kragh Pedersen wrote:
>
> Chris Roddy wrote:
> >
> > First of all... I just want to say that this OS crap about Windows vs Mac
> > OS vs ChooseYourFlavorOfUnix is ridiculous. Take it somewhere else.
> > Everyone knows CPM/80 is best. A TI-83 might even run it . . . ;-)
> >
> > As far as multitasking, I think that all of the previous attempts at
> > multitasking have been good but have been looking at it from the wrong
> > direction. On a PC people do many things: word processing, games,
> > spreadsheets, internet, etc. On a caclulator, what do you do? Very
> > specialized mathematical programs or games, basically. I was thinking
> > (that can be bad ;-) . . . wouldn't it be easiest to do a kind of
> > half-multitasking? (kind of like the PTSR solution)
> >
> > Consider this scenario: You're sitting in math, playing Penguins. You
> > want to pause your game and run your quadratic formula program. You hit
> > [MODE][ENTER] and Penguins passes whatever it needs to to variables and
> > lists.Mr. Shell stores all of the variables to a list and backs up L1
> > through L6, etc. etc. You run your quadratic formula program. Then you
> > quit that and run Penguins, your variables are stored and Penguins picks
> > up where it left off.
> >
> > Is this good, or am I loony?
>
> You can't really make a general "save" mechanism like that without
> slowing your calc severaly.
> But you could make save function in the game. That would be easy.
>
> --
> Rene Kragh Pedersen
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apparently my clothes are defective.
> - Dilbert.
That's not entirely true. On the 83 most of the variables are made up
of the letters A->Z and @. It is a small loop that can save all of
those variables into a special list. Another loop to get them back.
Would be much harder to try to save all the other possible special
variables (statistic variables and all that). I don't think that this
is the same type of situation on the 85, though.
Jody Snider
jody1@alaska.net
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