Re: Reminder, blatant ad
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 10:55:01 +0200
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"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > No because entry is not developing :-)
> The software might just be sitting there, processing nothing at any
It is both software and data.
> Derived data would
What kind of function ?
>
> x wrote:
> > The one that do software entry are called software developers ?
> >
> > To distinguish data from software you can say that the software provide
a
> > function and data does not. The data is processed.
> given point. Is it then data and NOT software?
> certainly then be software. What data is not derived from bytes? There
> is nothing without functions except an unaccessed disk.
The point is that software is the part that is usually replaced/altered for
changing the function of the whole system.
Think about those old computers programable by changing the wiring. The wires are hardware, but the wiring scheme is software. When you store this wiring scheme in the computer, it is data. Received on Thu Feb 02 2006 - 09:55:01 CET