Re: TIB: Multitasking.
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Re: TIB: Multitasking.
TurboSoft@aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 98-02-22 12:27:06 EST, you write:
>
> << To sum up on the multitasking discussion:
>
> Doing true multitasking in TI-BASIC is proveably impossible.
> Yes, you could do a function that saves important variables, but you
> cannot break from the middle of a Tetris game to do physics and then
> expect to return to the exact point you stopped. You simply do not have
> the interrupt option. This could be put into the program but not
> efficiently. The program would have to ask constantly if you want to
> interrupt, and nothing else would ever happen.
> Thus, multitasking will not be done in TI-BASIC.
> Good points and ideas have come up, people have discussed them in a
> constructive manner, and they might be useful in other contexts.
> However, the cold, hard fact remains that we can't do cost-efficient
> (pseudo-)multitasking using TI-BASIC alone.
> >>
>
> sure we can. l've already made a program for the TI-86 that will halt one
> program, run another one, and then return to the last one and restore
> variables A-J.
How do you halt the program?
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