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Originally Posted by elcreative
For some reason most people will take the "software" as amusing but find "meatware" overly insulting or offensive... 
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Why?

And besides... isn't software already taken?
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Originally Posted by Ravensknight
In many scifi books, and mainly the military types, it is called "wetware".
I think that is a good description...
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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.