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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: why use "task"?
Date: 1998/08/12
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Date: 1998-08-12T00:00:00+00:00
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My first 'real' use of Ada tasking was a program for my local
community access TV station.  It was a teleprompter running on a DOS
machine with TV set as monitor.  One task smoothly scrolled the
on-screen text while another periodically read a chunk of text file
and filled a buffer.  It certainly could have been done without
tasking, but was much simpler with tasking.