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Firmware is a metaphor, not an analogy.
Hardware is… Hard. Changing it is a big deal. It has mass!
Software is… Soft. It goes away when you turn the power off, and it’s modified at runtime. It weighs nothing, changes “instantly”.
Firmware is neither and both. It’s stored in hardware (EPROM, EEPROM, Flash, …) that you can take out and insert.
The metaphor is around temporality and physicality.
Sorry, pedant nerd.
At the time EEPROMs were becoming common, core memory was still common enough. Core was great! Power fail circuitry caused registers to save and the whole machine state was remembered.
Why not call it halfchub-ware
holy shit
Like Tofu. Mind blown
Care to elaborate?
Types of tofu are silken, soft, medium, firm, extra firm, and super firm
Oh. For a second there I thought it was going to be like “Tofu only refers to a specific kind of compressed soybean and you’ve got other variants like ‘Sofu’, ‘Kofu’, and ‘Tafu’”.
Surely, I can’t be the only one where that came to mind?
I thought they were gonna be like “Tofu is the opposite of fromfu”
This implies the existence of silkenware as well as hard tofu.
We have a long way to go as a species
Horrible to eat.
L take, tofu is the bomb
No way. I’ve had it. High school gf mother would make for dinner when I went over. Ugh
Proper Tofu, smoked. Press the water out, dice, shake in a bag with oil, sesame and flour, then stir-fry. Try that, just one more time (ofc you don’t have to), with matching sides, and see how you like that. Can be quite not-so-bad.
But I can understand that you don’t like it!
Tofu is nothing more than a vessel for sauce, its only as good as what’s on it
I take that fucker straight out the packaging and eat it raw
Smoked tofu, right?
Did I stutter?
Usually smoked, yes. :D
Just like meat
Tell me you eat shitty meat without telling you eat shitty meat
What meat tastes good on its own?
The entire foundation of my life is built on quicksand.
When we getting quickware
Firmsand.
TIL! I have never even wondered why it is called that. Just took it as a fact and went along with it.
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Damn… I always thought it meant the “firm” putting their “ware” on the chips. 😂
Same
I actually never tried to find any meaning to it. I thought it was just software for the BIOS (which it is), and that’s it.
But this half wat between soft and hard? Whoa.
It’s not software for the BIOS, it is the BIOS.
You’re or course right!
How come I never noticed that? That’s brilliant :)
Oooh… Never thought of that…
oh my god you blew my mind and I also work in IT
Chubware.
Then there’s wetware (people).
I miss some of the older ones from my college days (1990s)… million logical instructions per second (megalips), and measuring mouse speed in mickeys/pixel.
With the advent of lab grown animal neurons interfacing with parts, we need to expand the definition of “wetware”.
It’s meat. Doesn’t even need to be people meat. Just meat that can be trained to react to stimuli, which opens up some options depending on complexity.
So technically, the Pigeon Bomb means wetware predates both software and firmware.
Of course there’s people, the ID-10-T module needs to be installed somewhere!
I thought they required a PEN-15 adapter back then?
