Re: [avr-gcc-list] multi-tasking source for education?

[Ned Konz]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 8:19 am, Larry Barello wrote:
> I think your requirements are at odds with each other.  Multi-tasking is
> complex by nature.  You can demonstrate cooperative multi-tasking by
> teaching FSM (finite state machines) and having a main loop that calls
> various FSM tasks based upon flags (semaphores) or queue entries.

I'd agree with Larry.

I have had enough problems getting professional programmers to deal with 
message queues, semaphores, and other artifacts of multitasking.

If you can use either a FSM or a non-preemptive round-robin scheduler it will 
be much easier to teach.

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