> Not to belittle the achievment but mankind should be perfectly happy
> with a toaster that has only 2 inputs and no CPU's... This would have
> been a really cool flag for NetBSD had there been a production
> toaster that contained a CPU capable of running NetBSD but adding a
> NetBSD capable CPU to a normally dumb toaster is kind of like adding
> a CPU to a toilet...

Have you ever seen Japanese toilets?  http://www.theplumber.com/japan.html
Not quite as far-fetched as you might think.

:-)

Seriously though, it is ridiculous.  The intent was to attract people at
LinuxWorld by leveraging the "NetBSD/toaster" joke and as a token embedded
application for Technologic System customers.  Automating a toaster isn't
much different than regulating chemical temperatures in industrial
production lines.

//Jesse Off