2006-10-12 17:52:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing ➔ Other - Advertising & Marketing
Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software
2006-10-12 18:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Software fundamentally is the unique image or representation of physical or material alignment that constitutes configuration to or functional identity of a machine, usually a computer. As a content of memory, software in principle can be changed without the adjustment to the static paradigm of the hardware thus without the remanufacturing thereof. Commonly software is of an algorithmic form which translates into being to a sequence of machine instructions. Some software, however, is of a relational form which translates into being the map of a realization network (VHDL).
Software is a program that enables a computer to perform a specific task, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware). This includes application software such as a word processor, which enables a user to perform a task, and system software such as an operating system, which enables other software to run properly, by interfacing with hardware and with other software.
The term "software" was first used in this sense by John W. Tukey in 1957. In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all computer programs. The concept of reading different sequences of instructions into the memory of a device to control computations was invented by Charles Babbage as part of his difference engine. The theory that is the basis for most modern software was first proposed by Alan Turing in his 1935 essay Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem.
2006-10-13 01:02:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Software is basically programming. There are different kinds of software for different purposes, such as word processing, digital photo editing or games. There are also "drivers" which operate printers, scanners or card readers. Then there are internet browsers like MS Internet Explorer or Firefox & the all-important antivirus & firewall programs.
2006-10-13 02:02:16 · answer #3 · answered by WillyC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
software is like ink ... and hardware is like pen
2006-10-13 01:02:47 · answer #4 · answered by raghu n 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋