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Protothreads are extremely lightweight stackless threads designed for severely memory constrained systems such as small embedded systems or sensor network nodes. Protothreads provide linear code execution for event-driven systems implemented in C. Protothreads can be used with or without an underlying operating system.

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Keith Gaughan (http://talideon.com/) wrote:

Meh. Wrote something like that before when I wrote a small OS for the MEMS project I was working on as part of my college work experience. And it was simpler too!

Except, we called them microthreads.

∴ Keith Gaughan | 10-Mar-2005 11:24am est | http://talideon.com/ | #7181

Keith Gaughan (http://talideon.com/) wrote:

After reading about it more and it seems his inspiration is similar to mine: Coroutines.

∴ Keith Gaughan | 10-Mar-2005 3:41pm est | http://talideon.com/ | #7183

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