I've always thought about it as the way the software and hardware talk to each other.
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Turgidware, if you will.
holy shit
Why not call it halfchub-ware
It'd be really interesting to know ages of people who already knew this and those who didn't.
BTW, already knew it, 58. But then, I remember computers from the 80s and earlier that had the entire OS set in firmware and were not updateable.
38 and I thought firm meant company. Like the firm that created the software for the hardware.
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