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elevator controller: n. An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like
toaster (which superseded it). During one period
(1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization
committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid,
memory-limited computation environment. “You can't require
printf(3)
to be part of the default runtime library — what if you're targeting
an elevator controller?” Elevator controllers became important
rhetorical weapons on both sides of several
holy wars.
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