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RE: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:41:55 GMT
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Eric Hodges <eric.hodges@platinum+nospam+.com>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Brok [SMTP:lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 11:48 PM
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: legOS
Eric Hodges wrote in message
<01BE1C4E.E3D88FC0.eric.hodges@platinum.com>...
> Firmware is software. It doesn't matter if you burn software into ROM,
> store it on EPROM, store it as PAL settings, core memory values, etc.
> Software is software, and firmware is software.
So in the end all hardware must be software.
Nope. Hammers aren't software. Neither are coffee cups.
Seriously, why would you infer that all hardware is software? Software is
the instructions. It has to be distributed, stored and represented via
some physical medium. Hardware can store or run software, but that doesn't
make it software.
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