From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce6f6f23c4e880ad X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-24 21:58:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!news02.tsnz.net!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Multitasking theory question X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: <4MSR8.154$7G4.17706@news.xtra.co.nz> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:00:15 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.54.72.206 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1024981120 210.54.72.206 (Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:58:40 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:58:40 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26689 Date: 2002-06-25T17:00:15+12:00 List-Id: wrote in message news:WCSR8.355$Ye2.71695719@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > > [Meridian Ada for DOS] Unfortunatly, the system was limited to just 15 > > concurrent tasks. > I'm confused here. Did Meridian do 15 or whatever tasks preemptively, > or non-preemptively? Well, to the best of my recollection, the run-time just closed down and displayed an error saying that it can't start another task. Always happened at 16th instantiation. Wasn't a question of pre-emptive or not but just a matter of starting it up. I also seem to recall that there was some documentation saying as much.