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It is difficult to envisage any application of a dedicated microprocessor in which the firmware performs a single, compact and isolated activity. It is much more likely that the microprocessor is required to carry out a number of ‘processes’ or ‘tasks’ (these terms may be used interchangeably; the latter is used in this book), in an apparently simultaneous fashion. Achieving this requirement is the subject of this chapter, with a full description of a practical example the subject of the next.
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© 1986 Colin Walls
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Walls, C. (1986). Multi-tasking. In: Programming Dedicated Microprocessors. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08594-1_7
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