Computer System – Hardware and Software
Computer System: This can be thought of as combination of Hardware and Software.
Hardware: Information Systems hardware is the part of Information Systems that you can touch-the physical components of technology. Computers, keyboards, hard drives, iPads and flash drives are all examples of Information Systems hardware.
Software: Software is a set of instructions that tells the hardware what to do. Software is not tangible it cannot be touched. When programmers create software, what they are really doing is simply typing out lists of instructions that tell the hardware what to execute. There are several categories of software, with the two main categories being operating system software, which makes the hardware usable and application software, which does something useful.
Examples of operating system software: Microsoft Windows, LINUX, etc. Examples of application software: Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft PowerPoint etc.
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