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I still remember when preemptive multitasking became big in the X86 world in the late 80s/early 90s. It was a real sea change in OS stability. DESQView was fant
by burnte 1y ago
I still remember when preemptive multitasking became big in the X86 world in the late 80s/early 90s. It was a real sea change in OS stability. DESQView was fantastic but real preemptive multitasking was amazing. It was why I stayed on OS/2 until 1996 or 1997.
- rkagerer 1y agoI still like it to this day for microcontroller projects. It's not that difficult to write code that iterates in chunks and yields now and then. Of course you want to avoid non-finite I/O calls (make use of timeout parameters where available). Things that need low latency (eg. counting encoder ticks) are still interrupt driven (or handled by dedicated peripherals).