Pregunta de entrevista en Apple: How are microcode and firmware different? Where are they similar?

Apple

How are microcode and firmware different? Where are they similar?

Anónimo

18 mar 2009

Sort of a "where does the code live" question. Not sure why they asked it, since it had nothing to do with the position being offered.

Anónimo

10 mar 2017

Firmware is software that handles internal functions of the system like sensor processing Microcode is firmware for the microprocessor