Re: Challenge / Help

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Arnold Peterson said

<<The designers of a large house are proposing to build an intelligent
environment controlled by a central computer system. It is envisaged that
the final system will incorporate heating and fire detection.

As part of the design phase of these systems it has been decided to build a
prototype which will simulate both the heating and fire detection systems.
This prototype will implement a real time kernel which will control the
heating system and the fire detection system. The kernel will consist of
two main tasks - a heating task and a fire detection task. The latter will
have a higher priority than the former because it is viewed a critical
task. The actual data is test data provided through a file system as no
actual devices are connected to the system at this stage.>>

That's a clever idea for an assignment, I think I will capture it for
future use. Who is your instructor -- he or she is certainly imaginative.
You should learn a lot working on this assignment *yourself*.