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Severely, severely, severely oversimplifying it...

The hardware does the actual work, consuming power as it does it. The software tells the hardware what work to do, when to do it, and in what order it should be done.

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15y ago

well first software were designed first..and to develop it hardware were designed...!!

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15y ago

Since neither is of any use without the other, this is a meaningless question.

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15y ago

software could not exist without hardware for it to be written on

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13y ago

I'd say it would have to be hardware. You had to have hardware to write software on.

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12y ago

hardware

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