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From: steiger@cs.nps.navy.mil (Robert Steigerwald x2468)
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Subject: Re: Teaching Concurrency
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Date: 12 Jan 90 00:47:24 GMT
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>
->OK, so this begs the question: what is the "smallest" assignment that can
->use concurrency fruitfully. I would like to teach a bit about tasking in
->one of my classes, but I don't want students to get "wrong" ideas from the
->example I use.  Anyone out there have such an assignment? Is there some prime
->example out there of a good use of multi-tasking that is amenable to
->classroom instruction?
->
->Rich Pattis

A good example of a small multi-tasking problem is the Producer-Consumer
problem with an intermediate buffer.  It is covered well in the book by
Gehani entitled Ada An Advanced Introduction, 1984, Prentice-Hall, pages
158-161.

Bob Steigerwald