elevator controller
An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded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 holy wars.
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