 My OysterCard Whinge
In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807142312410.11847@urchin.earth.li >, at
23:14:56 on Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
remarked:
>To my mind, it has to be modifiable to be firmware, which makes code in
>a ROM not firmware. Although thinking about it, my mind is probably
>wrong on this point.
Lots of people these days take the precaution of making firmware
upgradeable, but that's not part of the definition - which is
non-volatile software providing the lower levels of API (not the user
interface) to a dedicated bit of hardware.
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Roland Perry |