[comp.lang.forth] Multi-tasking in FORTH

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