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Firmware. (seemel.ink)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Rule of thumb: Firmware is essentially software that can break the hardware if something goes wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I always think of it as software that's saved on the hardware. But I guess technically all software is saved on hardware, but firmware is saved on hardware that's different from the hardware you normally save it on.

But maybe your definition is better.