The REX firmware was written by Starfish Software, and the hardware was manufactured by Citizen Electronics.

Software copy protection schemes for early computers such as the Apple II and Commodore 64 computers were extremely varied and creative because most of the floppy disk reading and writing was controlled by software ( or firmware ), not by hardware.

Software developers mostly use JTAG for debugging and updating firmware.

The lawsuit, case 07-CV-8205 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York was filed on 20 September 2007 by the Software Freedom Law Center ( SFLC ) on behalf of Andersen and Landley against Monsoon Multimedia Inc., after BusyBox code was discovered in a firmware upgrade and attempts to contact the company had apparently failed.

coreboot ( formerly known as LinuxBIOS < ref >) is a free software project, endorsed by the Free Software Foundation, aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware found in most computers with a lightweight system designed to perform only the minimum of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.

* Avocent MergePoint Embedded Management Software ( OEM IPMI firmware used in e. g. DELL and Gigabyte motherboards )

The Apache Software Foundation ( ASF ) is a non-profit corporation ( classified as 501 ( c )( 3 ) in the United States ) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server.

This advanced programming technique is documented in the original 1983 " Atari 3600 Software Guide ".

Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California, and finally in Austin, Texas.

Robert ( Bob ) M. Frankston ( born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York ) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.

Software that is not distributed can use the Sleepycat License, as can free and open source software.

Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only.

Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only.

In the case of Software development, this moment is generally agreed to be the publication in the 1980s of the specifications for the IBM Personal Computer published by IBM employee Philip Don Estridge.

Software includes all the various forms and roles that digitally stored data may have and play in a computer ( or similar system ), regardless of whether the data is used as code for a CPU, or other interpreter, or whether it represents other kinds of information.

Software quality is very important, especially for commercial and system software like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows and Linux.

Software is usually designed and created ( coded / written / programmed ) in integrated development environments ( IDE ) like Eclipse, Emacs and Microsoft Visual Studio that can simplify the process and compile the program.

However, representing oneself as a " Professional Software Engineer " without a license from an accredited institution is illegal in many parts of the world.

* Portable. NET, part of the dotGNU project, is a Free Software implementation of ECMA-335 by Free Software Foundation.

The model is based on the process maturity framework first described in the 1989 book Managing the Software Process by Watts Humphrey.

Software piracy has often been given by trade publications and user groups as the reason for the Amiga's demise, but this view is controversial.

Most important of these is Software in the Public Interest, the owner of the Debian trademark and umbrella organization for various other community free software projects.

Notable for using this data model is the ADABAS DBMS of Software AG, introduced in 1970.

Doom ( typeset as DOOM in official documents ) is a 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter video game by id Software.

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software.

He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext and Userland Software, a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

BIND was first released with Berkeley Software Distribution 4. 3BSD, and as such, it is free and open source software.

Euphoria is a programming language originally created by Robert Craig of Rapid Deployment Software in Toronto.

Eiffel is an ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer ( an object-orientation proponent and author of Object-Oriented Software Construction ) and Eiffel Software.

A year later, in the season 2010 – 11, AFAS Erp Software took over as official shirt sponsor, also taking over duties as stadium sponsor.

Software may also be written in an assembly language, essentially, a mnemonic representation of a machine language using a natural language alphabet.

The Supreme Court decision made it possible to value software, and also purchase Software patents.

Software can also be in the form of freeware or shareware.

On August 12, 2011, it was confirmed that a new Counter Strike game was in development at Valve Software and Hidden Path Entertainment, which also codevelops Counter-Strike: Source, going under the title Global Offensive.

There are pre-built CD images for KDE Software Compilation, Xfce and LXDE also.

Software running via the built-in Basic interpreters also has a high level of compatibility, but only after they are re-tokenized, which can be achieved fairly easily by transferring via cassette tape with appropriate options.

Software has also been written to assist with the identification of musical keys for use in harmonic mixing, which analyze computer media files for musical content and automatically determine the musical key.

The Software office will also be responsible for " software systems technology, machine intelligence and software engineering.

It was written by John Draper's Cap ' n Software, which also produced a version of Forth, which EasyWriter was developed in.

This centre is also responsible for the development of the technology infrastructure it requires to support existing and planned missions, including Space Control and Operations Software ( SCOS 2000 ), an adaptable software infrastructure for monitoring and controlling the various spacecraft.

The Free Software Foundation also believes all software needs free documentation, in particular because conscientious programmers should be able to update manuals to reflect modification that they made to the software ), but deems the freedom to modify less important for other types of written works.

In addition to The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks is also known for the paper No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering.

One of the nights, Id Software put together an impromptu game known as " Wac-Man " to demonstrate not only the technical prowess of the Keen engine, but also how it worked internally.

Id Software has also been associated with novels since the publication of the original Doom novels.

It was also the series of Id Software that designer Tom Hall was most affiliated with.

Id Software has also overseen several games using its technology that were not made in one of their IPs such as Shadowcaster, ( early-Id Tech 1 ), Heretic, Hexen ( Id Tech 1 ), Hexen II ( Quake engine ), and Orcs and Elves ( Doom RPG engine ).

At the same time, several Free Software opinion leaders ( including Eben Moglen, Pamela Jones of Groklaw, Jan Wildeboer and Carlo Piana, who also acted as co-counsel in the merger regulation procedure ) advocated for the unconditional approval of the merger.

Software synthesizers also exhibit a noticeable delay in their sound generation, because computers use an audio buffer that delays playback and disrupts MIDI timing.

A port for the Commodore Amiga was also made available in 1998 by clickBOOM Software.

* The Open Software Foundation DCE / RPC Distributed Computing Environment ( also implemented by Microsoft ).

The Software Development Life Cycle or SDLC was also starting to appear as a consensus for centralized construction of software in the mid 1980s.