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An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it).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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