On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:27:11 BST, christos gentsis said: > Matthew Geier wrote: > > > > > Embeded computing is much bigger than that. I've got a 20 year old > > embedded processor controlled microwave oven. (It still knows how to > > cook better than I do :-). > > > why anyone that refer to an embedded device mean a microwave???? Microwaves. Alarm clocks. Stereos. DVD players. Tivo units. Your car, most likely, unless it's *so* ancient it predates fuel injection (my '87 Tercel didn't have any once the radio died. My '94 Camry has at least 4 that I know of). Almost anything that has a display more intelligent than wiring one end of an LED to ground, the other to +5V (with a 5K resistor in there), and using it as a "power on" indicator. This includes essentially all multi-segment LED and all LCD displays. We *could* itemize all these things, or just generalize to "anything that's at least as smart as a microwave probably has an embedded CPU".
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