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From: Sean Kennedy <skennedy@bconnex.net>
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Subject: Re: Context Switching Primitives.
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 22:26:28 -0500
Organization: Wooden Tulip Ltd.
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Sean Kennedy wrote:
> 
> Hello Everyone.
>         As Part of my master plan to take over the universe, I have gotten 75%
> though the implemetation of a basic task switching method EXE.
> 
> Called Context.u {Metrowerks CW 1.7.4 Project} the exe developed and
> dl'd to the PSX will communicate vis-a-vis the serial port for ANSI
> conio and will show how much time the R3000 Engine in the PSX spends its
> time doing.
> 
> The code is -O0 optimised and will illustrate the concept of "Context
> Switching" an isoteric term referring to the time it takes to go from
> one thing to another and really get something done in the first place
> anyway. More about that later in July. {Release date ? hmm, maybe July
> 20 or so, if I can get it to work like I would like to see it.}
> 
 
> -TTFN
> -sean
Alas, What a Disaster...

Here's the scoop.

I disappeared Halfway Through August, And came back to the Wonderful
land of reality here in November...
It was the worst Season Startup Ever! { Origionally The Humber College
Thread..}

As well, I found that Context.pxe had a flaw. 1: No Floating Point.
Which I Integered, but that wasn't going to help..   2: IOCTL bits,
specifically the printf function in RDB mode, AND printf in serial
console {SIOCONS} mode. THAT was a depressing finding..
Then came work. And the Yaroze turned into a game console again.

Well, Version 2 of CodeWarrior was Sent to my house. BUT, since the
Elton John CD manufacturing caused a runout of CD-ROM platters, I didn't
get mine. But the graphics on the mailcase were rather nice just the
same. { Nudge NUdge Wink! Joel..   ;)   }

So I'm back online again. And Looksee at my website:

http://panther.humberc.on.ca/~woodentulip/index.html

And I'll give a status update when I get Context.pxe going.   

As well I'm doing PC development in Parallel with NY development using
the 3Dfx chipset

Namely the Diamond Multimedia Monster 3D... Emm, Nice!

till later..

skennedy@bconnex.net