Happy things thread!

[Travis B.]

zeptoforth now has preemptive multitasking which works! (One can still manually hand off control of the processor with PAUSE though if one wishes.)

[Travis B.]

The "which works" part is important, because I had this almost complete for a while now, but was running into problems that turned out to be due to an undocumented bit in the ARM Cortex-M4 exception frame format.

[Travis B.]

And now I can officially call zeptoforth an RTOS, as it now has task priorities!

[Vardelm]

And now I can officially call zeptoforth an RTOS, as it now has task priorities!

I Googled this.

My bwain expwoded.

[Linguoboy]

Flatmate ran to the store in the cold rain so now we will have custard pie for Thanksgiving!

[Travis B.]

And now I can officially call zeptoforth an RTOS, as it now has task priorities!

I Googled this.

My bwain expwoded.

Furthermore, for more RTOS goodness, it now has a lock implementation that resists priority inversion even when multiple locks and tasks holding them and waiting for them are chained together!

[Vardelm]

Furthermore, for more RTOS goodness, it now has a lock implementation that resists priority inversion even when multiple locks and tasks holding them and waiting for them are chained together!

[Ares Land]

I bought my favourite Kenyan black tea. Best thing ever to get up in the morning (and by get up I mean 'get a caffeine overdose').

[Travis B.]

I reworked priority inversion-resistant locks so now they work properly in the case where a single task holds multiple locks, each of which has another task waiting.

[alynnidalar]

Is that the issue you mentioned in the other thread as having stumped you for a week? Congrats on getting it working!

[Travis B.]

Is that the issue you mentioned in the other thread as having stumped you for a week? Congrats on getting it working!

Yes it is. The problem when I fix bugs, though, is then I soon get dissatisfied with not having much to do, and have to keep on thinking up things to code so I don't get bored.

[Vardelm]

I just applied for graduation for my masters degree at the end of next semester!!!



It's gettin' real, now!

[Ares Land]

Congrats! What'll you get a master's in?

[Vardelm]

Congrats! What'll you get a master's in?

Thanks!

The short answer I give people is "digital media". Long answer: MA in Media & Information (UX design focus) as well as a certificate in digital media from another program in the college (Strategic Communications) via elective classes.

[Ares Land]

Nice! UX design is a particularly interesting subject.

[Raphael]

Congratulations from me, too!

[Vardelm]

Thanks to you as well! (But still just from me. )

[Man in Space]

I wanted to gift a friend’s kid a vinyl copy of Yellow Submarine. It’s been in the mail for over two weeks with no delivery date in sight. This morning I remembered that I myself had a copy of Yellow Submarine on vinyl and that it hadn’t ever been played. So I located it and sent it via UPS this morning. When the second copy finally arrives I’ll just hold on to it.

[rotting bones]

My semester is finally over.

[Vardelm]

My semester is finally over.

Huzzah! These days, any semester you survive is a good semester!