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The efficiency of cooperative tasking was seen in the 1970s when machines were notoriously slow. In the example below roughly 8x better. https://www.forth.com/
by lebuffon 7y ago
The efficiency of cooperative tasking was seen in the 1970s
when machines were notoriously slow. In the example below roughly 8x better.
https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-programming-language/ https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-programming-language/
"a PDP-11 or Nova could be expected to support up to eight users, although the performance in a system with eight active users was poor.
On this hardware, Moore’s Forth systems offered an integrated development toolkit including interactive access to an assembler, editor and the high-level Forth language, combined with a multitasking, multiuser operating environment supporting 64 users without visible degradation..."