Comments on: Having survived https://www.lafferty.ca/2003/12/28/having-survived/ Rich Lafferty's OLD blog Fri, 02 Jan 2004 02:57:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 By: bluejayway https://www.lafferty.ca/2003/12/28/having-survived/comment-page-1/#comment-858 Fri, 02 Jan 2004 02:57:26 +0000 #comment-858 Ah, I see, so it’s kind of the gelatin of the computing world. =)

]]> By: Rich https://www.lafferty.ca/2003/12/28/having-survived/comment-page-1/#comment-857 Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:16:11 +0000 #comment-857 Firmware is software stored in read-only memory (ROM) or programmable ROM (PROM). It’s easier to change than hardware but harder than software stored on disk. (From FOLDOC.)

Updating the firmware is roughly the equivalent of upgrading the mp3 player’s “operating system”.

]]> By: bluejayway https://www.lafferty.ca/2003/12/28/having-survived/comment-page-1/#comment-856 Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:29:33 +0000 #comment-856 What is firmware?

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