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 ;-)
I'm not sure you can really say that "computer program" is any less
ambiguous than "television program", at least when taken with no
context.
For example, Bill asks his friend, "Have you seen the new computer program?"
Is he referring to:
a. Front Page 2000 (a software application)
b. "The Computer Chronicles" (a television program about
computers)
c. A new political initiative aimed at puttimg more computers
in schools.
Gotta love English...
<<<John>>>