Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!willett!ForthNet From: ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Multi-tasking and Multi-user Message-ID: <2886.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> Date: 16 Jun 91 13:07:44 GMT Organization: (n.) to be organized. But that's not important right now. Lines: 28 Date: 06-13-91 (22:42) Number: 150 of 162 To: JACK WOEHR Refer#: 137 From: ELLIOTT CHAPIN Read: NO Subj: MULTI-TASKING AND MULTI-U Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE Conf: FORTH (58) Read Type: GENERAL (+) -> JAX, I just saw your Dr. Dobbs article. What about queuing instead -> of roundrobin in the context of something like your "medium- -> heavyweight" multitasker? JW> That's an interesting idea ... do you have an example in mind? Nothing specific; but I suppose it came to me in part because of Brad Rodriguez' article "Multiprocessor Forth Kernel" in Forth Dimensions vol. XI, #3. Elliott Chapin --- ~ DeLuxe} 1.12 #4315 ~ PCRelay:CRS -> #460 RelayNet (tm) 4.10 Canada Remote Systems * Toronto, Ontario <<<>>> ----- This message came from GEnie via willett. You *cannot* reply to the author using e-mail. Please post a follow-up article, or use any instructions the author may have included (USMail addresses, telephone #, etc.). Report problems to: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us _or_ uunet!willett!dwp