Well when a software and a hardware love each other very much...uh you see the SATA cable goes in the.. and then there's pin hole connectors of course.. auxiliary input... And then 2 days later the ups man brings you new firmware.
QBasic came with NIBBLES.BAS, a snake game using text-mode characters as "pixels". Specifically it faked a 80x50 "pixel" grid using the standard 80x25 text screen where each 8-bit (=1 byte) text character made up two monochrome pixels using ▄ or ▀ or █ or an empty space.
I assume the name derived from the fact that, in a way, one pixel was "using half a byte", i. e. a nibble.
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Wtf i’m only realizing this now! Wtf after 30 years!!! Aaarrgggg
Even now it took me 30 minutes to figure it out.
We still love you!
Is this actually the reason it's called this? Like dead serious.
Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware#History_and_etymology
If it's fake, it's a decades old prank. I heard it used seriously pre-millennium.
It fits extremely well. Software changes regularly. Hardware never changes, while firmware is mostly fixed, but can change periodically.
then where else does firmware come from?
Well when a software and a hardware love each other very much...uh you see the SATA cable goes in the.. and then there's pin hole connectors of course.. auxiliary input... And then 2 days later the ups man brings you new firmware.
Okay bud? Alright goodnight.
Wow i never learned this in Christian school!
It gets old on the device since it's never updated and eventually it starts to ferment. Fermware -> firmware.
Theseus' firmware. After how many changes does a board became a new component.
How am I just hearing about this now?
That took a bit of time for me too
NonNewtonianWare
I love how everyone both believes this but is so upset that they didn't realize that they need confirmation
Is this true?
I want to believe...
Also halfway between a bit and a byte is a nibble.
I do love scientice's collective sense of humour. I'd give good odds it was initially suggested down the pub (or similar).
Science pubs are some of the best pubs.
The fact that Java compiles into Jars always makes me smile.
QBasic came with NIBBLES.BAS, a snake game using text-mode characters as "pixels". Specifically it faked a 80x50 "pixel" grid using the standard 80x25 text screen where each 8-bit (=1 byte) text character made up two monochrome pixels using ▄ or ▀ or █ or an empty space.
I assume the name derived from the fact that, in a way, one pixel was "using half a byte", i. e. a nibble.
To extend on the theme, can we start calling the codebases of platforms that have undergone enshitification “chodeware”?
Shitware, I’d think.
Wait until you learn about wetware.
What's next... Underware?
semper ubi sub ubi
Half-chubware
FIRMware is just SOFTware that's HARD to INSTALL.
Bro
:O
Oof me too