An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=toaster">toaster (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardisation 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 run-time library - what if you' re targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both sides of several ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=holy wars">holy wars.
