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From: waldau@kuling.UUCP (Mattias Waldau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: task-switching
Message-ID: <447@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 13:44:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  3 13:44:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 08:54:33 EDT
Reply-To: waldau@kuling.UUCP (Mattias Waldau)
Organization: Dept. of Computing Science, Uppsala University, Sweden
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A week ago I read that some FORTH did task switching in NEXT or DOCOL.
If you do that, the implementation gets very difficult, you will for 
example need separate diskbuffers. In Chuck's implementation task
switching is only done when you do i/o or if you explicitly call
PAUSE. And in FORTH you do it simple! (i.e. with a minimum of code)


Mattias Waldau			Email: mattias-waldau@aida.uu.se