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Hardware, software, hotware?, coldware?

dmsmithdmsmith
edited February 2014 in Chit chat
Just a quick question regarding use of terms. As terms tend to get simplified, or change use over time, or even get used wrongly I was thinking about the term hotware. I don't hear it used very much but I was sure I once heard it used in reference to something that I didn't understand at the time. Did it ever mean software for communications applications, that is Modulator/Demodulator software, or did it mean a particular part of a program, or could it have meant hardware that is on all the time? It surely meant something in the early days.
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  • Paradigm ShifterParadigm Shifter
    edited February 2014
    Dunno. Maybe it can be hot swapped (i.e. removed at runtime without powering down the system)?

    Either that or it's been stolen.
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  • RalfRalf
    edited February 2014
    They say it means "illegal"

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hotware
  • balfordbalford
    edited February 2014
    Slightly related, back in the late 80's my mother was chatting to my mate's mum about buying a grey +2 for me (she had just bought the same bundle for my friend).

    My friend's mum said, "it's great value, you get ?40 worth of free software".

    "That's nice", my mum said, thinking, "what the hell use is forty quid's worth of cuddly toys?"....

    Bless 'em, my parents were (and still aren't) very technologically minded....

    B
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  • Paradigm ShifterParadigm Shifter
    edited February 2014
    "Someone told me I should delete all my biscuits from the browser" was the best one I have heard.
    Currently released version of SJOE: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=42215
  • milemile
    edited February 2014
    Paradigm Shifter wrote: »
    "Someone told me I should delete all my biscuits from the browser" was the best one I have heard.

    that is pretty funny. :lol:
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited February 2014
    Ralf wrote: »
    They say it means "illegal"

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hotware


    I seen that thanks, which prompted me to ask here because I was sure that the term had been around longer and went back to the 80s at least, but that would still make sense even in the early days of computers, but I just wondered did it have a original meaning, or was it always that.
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited February 2014
    balford wrote: »
    Slightly related, back in the late 80's my mother was chatting to my mate's mum about buying a grey +2 for me (she had just bought the same bundle for my friend).

    My friend's mum said, "it's great value, you get ?40 worth of free software".

    "That's nice", my mum said, thinking, "what the hell use is forty quid's worth of cuddly toys?"....

    Bless 'em, my parents were (and still aren't) very technologically minded....

    B


    Sounds like your mum wasn't too far behind if she understood "grey +2" refered to a Spectrum, that would have thrown most dixon's staff in the 80s. I guess its the term "bundle" that muddles people.

    I call cuddly toys "plush" now from working in a shop that sold them. If I ever work in furniture retail it might get really confusing.

    http://www.toys-expert.com/b2b/vinyl_toy/6/plush_animal_sofa_291.html

    "Plush?" - " no I meant luxurious"

    "Animal?" - "leather, couldn't think of the word, guess I should have said cowhide"

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  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited February 2014
    Paradigm Shifter wrote: »
    Dunno. Maybe it can be hot swapped (i.e. removed at runtime without powering down the system)?

    Yes, like changing a Kempston, for a Protek interface after loading TLL. Or was it the other way round. Not much good in either case, I don't think it is ever wise to change peripherals when a Spectrum is powered up, or even "powering" up
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