Re: TIB: Multitasking


[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

Re: TIB: Multitasking




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.


Follow-Ups: References: