Just remember that back then your computer was unreliable and your light bulb was reliable.

Now your light bulb is unreliable as well as your computer :)

The light bulb halting problem, pre-IoT: Will it turn off? Yes.

The light bulb halting problem, now: Will it turn off? Impossible to say.

"Lightbulb, compute to the last digit the value of pi!"

Not really, unless your early 90s PC was really shit.

Yes really. The 50 to 100 MHz 486 processor was the state of the art consumer computing platform of the early 90s.

The bulb in question here has not just one, but two processors that both run faster than the 100MHz 486. Also, when Windows 95 came out - in 1996 - the minimum required RAM was 4MB. The ST processor in the light bulb has built in RAM of 1MB. So, in theory, it would be possible with a few hacks to get the bulb to run MS Windows 95...

EDIT: I guess it was OSR2 in 1996... still, the light bulb is a decent computing machine in comparison to early to mid-90s consumer tech...

"So, in theory, it would be possible with a few hacks to get the bulb to run MS Windows 95..."

"few"