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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: *.ware
Message-ID: <971@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 03:07:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 17 03:07:04 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 13:13:41 EDT
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca.
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Keywords: Firmware

Hardware and software were obvious, but I always thought that firmware was 
software in a PROM. I have however heard quite a few engineers/managers/head-
hunters refer to it as any software, whether or not it was in RAM or ROM, 
that "runs the machine", whether it was a copier or a motor controller or a
disk drive...whatever.

-- 
Richard Sexton
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