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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multitasking
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.201753.13012@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 26 Feb 91 20:17:53 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.151210.4010@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1976@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <1991Feb16.004202.26343@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <16998@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
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In article <16998@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes:
>In article <1991Feb16.004202.26343@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes: ...
Clark replies >
>The Texas Instruments' 9900 microprocessor family had a Workspace Pointer.
>The 'register set' r0-r15 was pointed to by this pointer in RAM. The
>context switch was get new PC and LOAD WP. Unfortunately TI in their
>wonderful fumble of the microprocessor line, didn't use their
>corporate resources to dominate the market. The rest is history.

How many other folks have noticed that good system /= good marketing?

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