On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:14:50 -0600 Peter Saint-Andre wrote: [...] > Question: when a document is printed, does it become hardware, or > something else?
Not anymore than a program becomes hardware when it is stored on a physical medium (hard disk, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, USB stick, floppy disk, ROM chip, ...). IMO, when a document (which is software) is printed on paper, it becomes software stored on a physical medium (paper, in the present case). The physical support is hardware, the information stored on it is still software (== information that can be treated with a computer system). Please note that software always needs a physical support in order to be stored. Even when software is loaded in main memory: well, main memory is a physical medium! -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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