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.

                                        -Dean






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>What might work is starting one headfull image to act as task
>coordinator, and devise a way to launch a bunch of very cut-down
>headless 'worker' images. 

This is precisely what is needed for applications in robotics, where
numerous low power processors do sensor signal processing and/or actuator
control. Multitasking is replaced by parallel distributed computing making
real time response easier to achieve with much less software overhead. 

I would like to hear from those doing work on Squeak in that direction.

Joaquin


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