Points to Ponder: Software/Firmware/Hardware

[Ruahrc]

Just a random topic:
Hardware is the physical components of your computer: cpu- ram, etc.
Software is the programming that we use on the hardware
Firmware is like software except it's software on hardware (I.E. Flash ROM chips, Bios, etc.)

So isn't ALL software firmware? I mean for software to exist it has to have manifest on some hardware, thus defining it as firmware, yes?

Just ranting around

Ruahrc

[Steve R Jones]

firmware

Software (programs or data) that has been written onto read-only memory (ROM). Firmware is a combination of software and hardware. ROMs, PROMs and EPROMs that have data or programs recorded on them are firmware.