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Re: Unixisms on top of P8?

Subject: Re: Unixisms on top of P8?
From: mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 17:48:22 -0800 (PST)
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On Monday, 24 December 2012 09:47:26 UTC+10, gid...@sasktel.net  wrote:
 
> How many bytes does one really need from the stack for each process.  Good programming can keep the stack usage down.  Therefore one can pretty much alot 64 bytes of stack space for each process.  I don't believe any more than 4 processes can be used at any one time.

If you're attempting to do Unix style IPC, 4 is nowhere near enough to do anything useful.

Kernel + init + shell uses 3 processes at a minimum. With only one left over there's no point at all in the functionality you've built, since you only have one free slot.

Matt

References:
- Unixisms on top of P8?
  - From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
- Re: Unixisms on top of P8?
  - From: BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>
- Re: Unixisms on top of P8?
  - From: "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>
- Re: Unixisms on top of P8?
  - From: BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>
- Re: Unixisms on top of P8?
  - From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
- Re: Unixisms on top of P8?
  - From: mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>
- Re: Unixisms on top of P8?
  - From: pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>
- Re: Unixisms on top of P8?
  - From: gids.rs@sasktel.net

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