What is computer software?

Computer software (also called software) refers to the program and its documents in the computer system, and the program is a description of the processing object and processing rules of the computing task; Documentation is to facilitate the understanding of the explanatory information required by the program. Programs must be loaded into the machine to work, and documents are generally for people to see, not necessarily loaded into the machine.

Software is the interface between users and hardware. Users communicate with computers mainly through software. Software is an important foundation of computer system design. In order to facilitate users and make the computer system have higher overall utility, the combination of software and hardware, as well as the requirements of users and software, must be considered comprehensively when designing a computer system.

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Computer software is generally divided into system software and application software:

System software is various operating systems, such as windows, Linux, UNIX, etc. , including operating system patches and hardware drivers, are system software.

There are more kinds of application software that can be subdivided, such as tool software, game software and management software.

The system software is responsible for managing all kinds of independent hardware in the computer system and making them work in harmony. System software enables computer users and other software to regard the computer as a whole, regardless of how each underlying hardware works.

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