INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR UPDATING PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to optionally update a program mounted on a ROM (read only memory) without switching the ROM and to automatically execute the updated program. SOLUTION: This information processor is provided with a program storing means 11 which stores a program to be updated, a program version inquiring means 14 which inquires the version of a program stored in the ROM 3 of an information processor of an operation processing part 1 from a program managing part 10 when the information processor is started, a program version comparing part 15 which compares the version of the program stored in the program storing means with the version of a program stored in a ROM and a program transferring means 16 which transfers the program stored in the program storing means to a RAM 2 of the part 1 on the basis of compared results and executes the program transferred to the RAM.