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Firmware

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Firmware.

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Wtf i’m only realizing this now! Wtf after 30 years!!! Aaarrgggg
- Even now it took me 30 minutes to figure it out.
  
  We still love you!

Is this actually the reason it's called this? Like dead serious.
- Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware#History_and_etymology
- If it's fake, it's a decades old prank. I heard it used seriously pre-millennium.
  It fits extremely well. Software changes regularly. Hardware never changes, while firmware is mostly fixed, but can change periodically.
  
  then where else does firmware come from?

That took a bit of time for me too

How am I just hearing about this now?

NonNewtonianWare

I love how everyone both believes this but is so upset that they didn't realize that they need confirmation

Wait until you learn about wetware.

To extend on the theme, can we start calling the codebases of platforms that have undergone enshitification “chodeware”?
- Shitware, I’d think.

Is this true?
- I want to believe...
  Also halfway between a bit and a byte is a nibble.
  
  I do love scientice's collective sense of humour. I'd give good odds it was initially suggested down the pub (or similar).
  
  The fact that Java compiles into Jars always makes me smile.
  
  QBasic came with NIBBLES.BAS, a snake game using text-mode characters as "pixels". Specifically it faked a 80x50 "pixel" grid using the standard 80x25 text screen where each 8-bit (=1 byte) text character made up two monochrome pixels using ▄ or ▀ or █ or an empty space.
  I assume the name derived from the fact that, in a way, one pixel was "using half a byte", i. e. a nibble.

FIRMware is just SOFTware that's HARD to INSTALL.

What's next... Underware?
- semper ubi sub ubi
- Half-chubware

Bro

:O

Oof me too

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