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(which superseded it).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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {toaster}]