kube@cs.UAlberta.CA (Ron Kube) (03/31/91)
Hi, I am just learning FORTH and have come across a single board computer with FORTH in ROM. The FORTH system is multi-tasking which has been implemented using the words: TASK taskname programname IN 20 TM taskname EVERY 1 TS taskname Twenty minutes after entering these lines the program, programname, will execute and continue executing every one second thereafter. Ten tasks may be scheduled to run simultaneously. This is very convenient for the mobile robot I'm building. MY QUESTION: Are there other SBCs (ie New Micros Inc) that are multi-tasking? ----------- Is the word TASK part of fig-FORTH standards (I suspect not)? FYI: This is all running on a Z80A cpu at 4MHz with 16Mb RAM Thanks, Ron