Hardware & Software
Basically computer is made of two things
which are hardware and software.
Hardware
All the physical components/parts of computer
are called hardware OR those parts of computer which can be touch are said
hardware, such as monitor, keyboard, mouse, CPU etc.
Software
The collection of programs is called software
OR those parts of computer which we cannot touch are called software OR
software is referred to as the collection of computer instructions that tell
the computer how to work.
The software is classified into two parts.
1st. system software/operating system
The system software is that type of software
that is designed to run the computer hardware and application software. System
software includes windows, disk operating system (DOS) etc.
2nd. Application software
An application software is a program or
collection of programs that is designed to facilitate the user. The examples of
application software are MS word, MS excel, calculator, web browsers etc.