2007-02-23 21:47:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
"The programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation."
Basically, computer programs. Hardware, on the other hand, are the computer parts.
2007-02-23 21:51:54 · answer #1 · answered by fyang3299 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Program data. A Program that does something on your computer. Windows is software so is your Yahoo client. Device drivers are all software but any physical thing - Hard Drive, video card etc is HARDware.
2007-02-23 21:52:36 · answer #2 · answered by Traveller 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computer software is so called in contrast to computer hardware, which encompasses the physical interconnections and devices required to store and execute (or run) the software. In computers, software is loaded into RAM and executed in the central processing unit. At the lowest level, software consists of a machine language specific to an individual processor. A machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying processor instructions (object code), which change the state of the computer from its preceding state. Software is an ordered sequence of instructions for changing the state of the computer hardware in a particular sequence. It is usually written in high-level programming languages that are easier and more efficient for humans to use (closer to natural language) than machine language. High-level languages are compiled or interpreted into machine language object code. Software may also be written in an assembly language, essentially, a mnemonic representation of a machine language using a natural language alphabet. Assembly language must be assembled into object code via an assembler.
2007-02-23 21:58:02 · answer #3 · answered by Raja A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simplisticaly software is any programme you install on your 'puter that isnt chip based (e.g. BIOS/ROM) and permanent .. though that distinction is becomming blured with "flashing"
easy hint is if you installed somthing from a disk or CD its software usually... (your OS Win or Linux or Mac OSX is software)
2007-02-23 22:33:44 · answer #4 · answered by darchangel_3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all programs are software. anythin you can't hold is a software.
2007-02-23 22:24:33 · answer #5 · answered by Barbie_K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋