[Oberon] Multitasking and the Oberon Loop (was: Oberon Digest, Vol 135, Issue 14)

[Jan de Kruyf]

https://www.nativesystems.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Main/WebHomeLecturesSESeminar/WirthTasksVersusThreads.pdf

enjoy,

j.


On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 4:46 PM, chris <chris at gcjd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:41:10 -0400, David Hunter wrote:
> > I like the straight forward multi-tasking loop concept in Oberon which I
> > think makes it a good candidate for an embedded OS.   I've been thinking
> > of re-working the 'Oberon Loop' with "high priority" and "low priority"
> > tasks to replace the "user" and "other" tasks. The high priority tasks
> > could involve the user interface, but I think it should be more
> > abstracted as generic user input and user output.
>
> There were two attempts on this in the 90s. I recommend to check them
> out.
> The article from Wirth is hard to get on the net.
>
> Greetings, Chris
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> @inproceedings{ls94,
>         Address = {Zurich, Switzerland},
>         Author = {Spiros Lalis and Beverly A. Sanders},
>         Booktitle = {Proceedings of Programming Languages and System
> Architectures},
>         Number = {LNCS {\#782}},
>         Publisher = {Springer Verlag},
>         Series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
>         Title = {Adding Concurrency to the Oberon System},
>         Url =
> {ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/Oberon/OberonV4/Docu/concurrentOberon.ps},
>         Year = 1994}
>
> @article{wtask,
>         Author = {Niklaus Wirth},
>         Journal = {Software - Concepts and Tools},
>         Pages = {6-12},
>         Title = {Tasks versus Threads: An Alternative Multiprocessing
> Paradigm},
>         Volume = {17},
>         Year = {1996}}
>
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