Software and Hardware

By: Jesse Miller

Your computer is a system of tools that are set up to help you perform related tasks to a job that you need to get done. Surfing the net has become easier with the tools that are given to you from your computer. If you have certain detailed appointments that you need to write down your computer can help you maintain an address book, prepare reports, maintain your checkbooks, design different slides for presentations, and allow you to play more video games than before.

Most importantly, your computer is a set of tools that you need to work better and more efficiently. It's rather like owning a car. It, too, is a set of tools that helps you go from one place to another. You need a string will, the gas pedal, the tires, engine, and all the other parts of your car to get anywhere. Likewise, all the tools that that make up your computer are necessary and important.

Your computer contains two major sets of tools, software and hardware, and within the two. You can categorize various tools as follows: software, application software, system software, hardware, input devices, output devices, CPU and RAM, storage devices, telecommunications devices, hardware connections. Computers come in a variety of shapes and sizes. In the business world, you can find computers that support and that process needs of thousands of people simultaneously, these are called minicomputers, mainframe computers, and supercomputers. For you personally, there is a wide range of options including desktop computers, notebook computers, and personal digital assistants.

Software is the set of instructions that your computer hardware executes to process information for you. If you make a list of the reasons why you want a computer, those reasons will focus mainly on software. For example, you may see a, I want to keep a home budget, write term papers, generate graphs, and surf the net. You certainly wouldn't say, I want to use a mouse. Of course, you may say, I want to print high quality documents, so I can turn them in for school projects. But you have to create those documents first, and you do. That's using software.

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Many areas that you use to do your work will have to do with software and application programs. These are the two category programs that exist on a computer. This system has a system software, which is the software that details how your computer will carry out specific tasks. These tasks will include getting your computer up and going when you turn it on and began riding information onto a disc, or even checking for different viruses that may attach himself to your computer hard drive, and a host of other activities that will happen as you begin to use your computer war. The reason the system software deals with technology specific tasks is the layer of software closest to your computer.

The application software part of a computer is the software that will allow you to perform specific tasks, such tasks as writing papers or term papers for school, surfing the Internet, keeping a budget at your home and creating a slideshow presentation for your job. Because this type of application software deals with specific information related tasks that you want to perform, this is considered the software that is closest to you.

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