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• oaster n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller)....
• elevator controller: n. An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like {toaster} (which superseded it).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....
• bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
  Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....
• elevator controller n. An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it).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....
• beige toaster: n. A Macintosh. See {toaster}; compare {Macintrash}, {maggotbox}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
  Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....
• beige toaster n. A Macintosh. See toaster; compare Macintrash, maggotbox.
• oy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
  1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style adequately....
• zap: 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3.
  vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy....