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1 definition found From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: elevator controller n. An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it).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. ?You can't require printf(3) to be part of the default runtime library ? what if you're targeting an elevator controller?? Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both sides of several holy wars.