Hardware can be defined as items that you can actually touch or move from one desk or room to another. Software can be defined as a set of instructions that tells the computer how to behave.
Extra devices such as these are celled peripherals.
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Hardware can be defined as items that you can actually touch or move from one desk or room to another. Software can be defined as a set of instructions that tells the computer how to behave.
Extra devices such as these are celled peripherals.
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A special type of software, called the operating system (OS), tells the computer how to use all the different devices it can be connected to. e.g. printer, disk drive, keyboard, etc.
