solarwind wrote:
>> I'm curious, why do you think a task manager would be useful in this 
>> case?
>
> I've worked with QNX tasks before and I still have that "make it into
> a task" mentality. So I just thought that I might make a task to
> handle the protocol, since all that the interrupt on RX does is buffer
> the bytes in memory. We need a task to take care of the protocol. Is
> this a bad idea? How does one in the professional engineering world go
> about it?

Typically one starts with a simple loop. For instance, you could have:


RunMainLoop()
{
    GetMessage();
    if (message)
        ProcessMessage();
    UpdateLights();
    ReadTemperature();
}

Adding a task manager would increase complexity and overhead. There are 
cases when it is warranted, but personally I would start with a simple loop 
and switch to using a task manager when I saw the need for it.

Vitaliy 

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