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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Multitasking theory question
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:33:47 +1000
Date: 2002-06-24T17:33:47+10:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dale-368E8F.17334724062002@its-aw-news.its.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: A8xR8.23$zt.1911@news.xtra.co.nz

In article <A8xR8.23$zt.1911@news.xtra.co.nz>, "AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz> 
wrote:

> Not sure about that one. The only Ada compiler on DOS that
> I ever saw was a [very] old Meridian version. Since it was limited
> [all the usual disclaimers here] to just a few tasks if I remember
> correctly, and that DOS probably wasn't *the* problem, well...
> It looks like it wasn't the question of what does OS support - if
> you can do 15 tasks you can as wel do 255 at least :)

The Meridian Ada compiler was quite a nice compiler (i've since
thrown out my documentation) but as far as I know there was no
restriction on the number of tasks (at least not down to the level
of "a few").

dale



  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-24  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-20 20:46 Multitasking theory question Kai Schuelke
2002-06-20 20:53 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-21  2:13 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-24  3:18   ` AG
2002-06-24  4:13     ` tmoran
2002-06-24  4:24       ` AG
2002-06-24  7:33         ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
2002-06-25  3:27           ` AG
2002-06-25  4:48             ` tmoran
2002-06-25  5:00               ` AG
2002-06-25  5:17               ` Darren New
2002-06-25  5:25                 ` AG
2002-06-24  5:43     ` Mark Biggar
2002-06-24  6:48       ` AG
2002-06-24 15:14         ` Darren New
2002-06-24 16:19           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-25  2:01           ` AG
2002-06-25  3:21             ` Darren New
2002-06-25  4:01               ` AG
2002-06-25  4:19                 ` Darren New
2002-06-25  4:51                   ` AG
2002-06-26  1:58                     ` Darren New
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