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".