>Due to these reasons, more and more devices in a typical computer now need firmware to be uploaded at runtime for them to function correctly. This has grown:
> Going back 10 years or so, most computers only needed firmware uploads to make WiFi hardware work.
You can actually go back to almost 30 years with dialup modems, most notably the winmodem/softmodem popularizing this concept in the pc market. If there is anything to blame on this path of binary blobs, I'd fault them.
> Going back 10 years or so, most computers only needed firmware uploads to make WiFi hardware work.
You can actually go back to almost 30 years with dialup modems, most notably the winmodem/softmodem popularizing this concept in the pc market. If there is anything to blame on this path of binary blobs, I'd fault them.