Antedating of "Firmware"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri Sep 11 00:03:52 UTC 2009


The OED's first use for _firmware_ is dated 1968.  According to Wikipedia, it appeared earlier in:

Opler, Ascher (January 1967). "Fourth-Generation Software". Datamation 13 (1): 22-24.

Fred Shapiro

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