Associations to the word «Firmware»

Wiktionary

FIRMWARE, noun. Something in-between hardware and software. Like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on.
FIRMWARE, noun. Software intended for such embedded computer applications.

Dictionary definition

FIRMWARE, noun. (computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope