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Photoshop installation error
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wrote: programs need an operating system, which does happen to run on its own, therefore by your definition, the os must be a program, with everything else nothing but a bunch of subroutines. in other words, your definition is wrong. You should start with the boot loader, or maybe go back to the BIOS you're moving the goalposts, again. Not at all. Not even operating systems can run on their own. yet they can, and do. modern computers don't have a bios ... Nor do some ancient ones. Toodle-oo to EUFI too uefi, not eufi, although still called efi, and as i said, the majority of computers today don't have that. for clarification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUFI € Extrauterine fetal incubation. See Artificial uterus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. UEFI replaces the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware interface originally present in all IBM PC-compatible personal computers, with most UEFI firmware implementations providing legacy support for BIOS services. UEFI can support remote diagnostics and repair of computers, even with no operating system installed. Intel developed the original Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) specification. Some of the EFI's practices and data formats mirror those from Microsoft Windows. In 2005, UEFI deprecated EFI 1.10 (the final release of EFI). The Unified EFI Forum is the industry body that manages the UEFI specification. and calculators don't have either one, but for computers that did, they are for loading the operating system, not for running programs. And programs are for running subroutines (and also functions). no. programs are for doing work for the user. also, functions *are* subroutines. nothing more than another stupid semantic argument of yours. some functions on the more advanced calculators are very sophisticated programs, invoked with a tap of a button, and on some calculators, can be assigned to a button of the user's choosing. for programmable calculators, the functions are without any question *not* subroutines, but full fledged programs, and may internally have subroutines within them. i see you ignored this part. The functions in a programmable calculator can be called on from the keyboard and used as required. If you can write a program that calls on them and links them then the machine is computer and the functions are subroutines. nope. calculator programs have subroutines *within* them. Big programs have little programs designed to run inside 'em Little programs have lesser programs and so ad infinitum. goalpost movement detected. with that (new) definition, there is no such thing as a subroutine. everything would be a program, which contradicts your earlier claim that everything is a subroutine. calculator programs can also run other programs. See. they *can*. that doesn't mean they always do. it's actually rare. calculator programs can also be assigned to physical buttons as well as loaded and saved on magnetic cards or other storage. Oh, I loved my HP41C. yep, it was an awesome device in its day and still rather impressive. however, the magnetic card debuted with the hp-65 many years earlier. some of the functions assigned to buttons from the factory are very sophisticated programs. hewlett-packard calls them programs, as does the hp user base. they're called 'programmable calculators', not 'subroutineable calculators'. Subroutines are not programs? nope. calculator programs are in every way, programs. are you going to claim that inserting a magnetic card or a module adds subroutines and not programs? Now you are being silly. nope. yet another one of your pointless semantic arguments. ^^^ this ^^^ |
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