wetware

2 definitions found

wetware - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  wetware
  
     <jargon> /wet'weir/ (Probably from the novels of Rudy Rucker,
     or maybe Stanislav Lem) The human nervous system, as opposed
     to electronic computer hardware or software.  "Wetware has
     7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers."  Also, human beings
     (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to a
     computer system, as opposed to the system's hardware or
     software.
  
     See liveware, meatware.
  
     [True origin?  Dates?]
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1996-08-19)
  

wetware - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  wetware
   /wet'weir/, n.
  
     [prob.: from the novels of Rudy Rucker]
  
     1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or
     software. "Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers."
  
     2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to
  a
     computer system, as opposed to the system's hardware or software. See
     liveware, meatware.