Re: TIB: Multitasking

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Re: TIB: Multitasking



Hello,

Hi Jody.  Is mulitasking possible with the TI processor?

Josh:)
sivecjos@student.lansing.cc.mi.us


On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Jody wrote:

> 
> 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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