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1986 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Software
Author : Charles Jones
Published in: The Computer Handbook
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Just as the word ‘hardware’ can cover items as diverse as a printer or a piece of wire, the word ‘software’ covers an equally wide range of items. If hardware is everything to do with a computer that you can touch, software covers everything else that a system needs before it starts to do useful work. This is not intended as a definition but as you read this chapter you will discover the many dimensions of software and the boundaries between them.