[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On the other hand, if it's clearly software when it's on CD then it's >> clearly software when it's on eeprom. >False. That's why we call it firmware, not just "software living on a device". Get real. Software does not change its nature depending on the media it's stored on.
>It's an implementation detail of the hardware that they happen to have >shipped a microprocessor and a hardwired program. If the program had >been burned into a circuit in an FPGA, would you still call it >software? I'm not sure if a FPGA description should be considered a program. >If it's a single-use PROM, is it still software? Yes, sure. -- ciao, Marco
