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   Paul Rubin to Anton Ertl   
   Re: PAD and preemptive multi-tasking   
   20 Dec 24 13:17:54   
   
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   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:   
   > In any case, the question is how PAD is used by current programs that   
   > might be run on Gforth.   
      
   I thought the standard required PAD to be usable as random scratch   
   memory.  So I'd expect Gforth to allocate one for each task.  Gforth   
   systems aren't likely to suffer memory shortages from doing that.  It   
   would be more of an issue for Polyforth.   
      
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