<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Would you be referring to things like Rodney Brooks's subsumption architecture? Very impressive work, but as I recall he was using "really" small microcontrollers like 68HC11, where even Craig's 'Spoon' work would be too big.</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Joaquin Sitte" <j.sitte@qut.edu.au></b></font>
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<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">04/19/2005 08:38 PM</font>
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>What might work is starting one headfull image to act as task<br>
>coordinator, and devise a way to launch a bunch of very cut-down<br>
>headless 'worker' images. <br>
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This is precisely what is needed for applications in robotics, where<br>
numerous low power processors do sensor signal processing and/or actuator<br>
control. Multitasking is replaced by parallel distributed computing making<br>
real time response easier to achieve with much less software overhead. <br>
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I would like to hear from those doing work on Squeak in that direction.<br>
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