Comment Yeah, the bloat is real (Score 2) 137
My CP/M 2.2 on a 10MHz Z180 boots in 5 seconds or so from power on, most of the time is spent on the rom checksums by romwbw hbios.
2. Why this system doesn't fail safe if the controller is taken down?
Yet another cautionary tale of IoT woe, but also some seemingly bad design...
It is actually failsafe, because the system goes safely to a safe state when the control is lost. The heater running at full blast would certainly not be failsafe...
"Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained." -- The Tao of Programming