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Old 06-24-2012, 12:37 PM   #69
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Originally Posted by elcreative View Post
For some reason most people will take the "software" as amusing but find "meatware" overly insulting or offensive...
Why? And besides... isn't software already taken?

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In many scifi books, and mainly the military types, it is called "wetware".
I think that is a good description...
I've come across it several times. But I've always thought it could be confused/conflated with any tools necessary to do wet-"work."

Nah... when it comes to terminology pertaining to machine, code, and (l)user ... I prefer hard-, soft-, and meatware.
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