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stinos on Nov 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Electric Skateboard Models

Windows is it's firmware

For a PC I'd rather call it the software, or the OS, and call the BIOS it's firmware. Which can usually be updated for free.

mschuster91 on Nov 22, 2014 [–]

A PC with just a BIOS is unusable, though.

kaoD on Nov 22, 2014 | | [–]

A skateboard without wheels is unusable too, and wheels are not firmware either.

clamprecht on Nov 22, 2014 | | [–]

A PC with a BIOS can run free operating systems such as Linux. In contrast, I assume this skateboard can only run their own software/firmware.

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