Your 'hardware' is really a computer running software
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Nowadays. It's the the the logic is, is buried in software which is running in a general purpose chip,
Episode 192: Lunchroom Quickie (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:08:37 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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We grew up with hardware whose logic was in tubes and chips, so we still expect gear like a mixing board to just work. Today the logic is software running on general-purpose chips. A modern mixer is a computer with a screen and some levers, so glitches and reboots should be expected.