Bill, would you not call this an example of a
hardware program?
"Software" implies "program". "Software" by itself is
sufficient.
"Computer program" to differentiate from say "television program"
I can accept because "program" by itself is ambiguous. I can accept
"hardware program" as well, although I would say "programmed in
hardware".
If you said that that computer had "hardware software" I would have
to kill you ;-)