On 25 Nov 1998 Prof. Ahmad H. NAsri asked: > Does anyone out there have a graphical visualization of the >Dining Philosophers problem in Operating Systems? I just put one that runs on Windows up for ftp. SRC.ZIP (31K) is the source only, while exe.zip (236K) is that plus an exe file. ftp members.aol.com user ftp password your e-mail address cd gmoran01\diners binary get src.zip get exe.zip This is a graphic version of Prof. Michael Feldman's Ada version. The exe should run on any Windows PC while the source should compile with any Windows-targetted Ada 95 compiler (it also needs the CLAW library demo version, available in source (400K) from www.rrsoftware.com). The source is simple enough students should be able to experiment. Changing the relative durations of eating and thinking visually shows the synchronization, or lack of it, that may prevent or allow deadlock. Tom Moran