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Re:Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor by Gracana on Thursday May 26, 2022 @08:13AM (#31517352)
In the past, technicians would get engineering change orders and follow the instructions to rewire boards to fix problems. You could also replace state machine and microprogram ROMs, which I guess sounds a lot like a firmware update.
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Re:Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor by ReactiveJelly on Thursday May 26, 2022 @08:43AM (#31517621)
It's expensive to hire someone technical enough to:

- Perform such an update

- Sign off that they performed the update _correctly_

If you need an air-gapped system, it's still much easier to set it up so it can update from a USB flash drive and log "I did the update correctly" back to the drive.

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