RE: STYLE: Is Firmware always Firmware?

["Pete Sanborn" <psanborn2 -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

>From Webster's New World Dictionary of Computer Terms Eighth Edition:

"firmware: Broadly, the system software stored in a computer's read-only
memory (ROM) or elsewhere in the computer's circuitry, such as the BIOS
chips in IBM PC-compatible computers."

Regards,
Pete Sanborn

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[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-81537 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Dana Worley
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:05 PM
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Subject: Re: STYLE: Is Firmware always Firmware?


From:           	"Jonathan Soukup" <JSoukup -at- at-track -dot- com>

> I'm getting a lot of comments where she made this awkward statement
> about "must contain firmware operating software release 1.01.00".

Drop the software. How about "must contain operating firmware
release 1.01.00" or "...operating system firmware version..."

Dana W.



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