What is hardware and software give example?

Answer 1

• hardware is the physical mechanism (usually electronic) that executes coded instructions, stores coded instructions and coded data, and performs a variety of data input/output operations
• software is the list of coded instructions that tell the hardware how to perform a specific useful task(s)

The hardware making up a given computer (e.g. PC, Mac, UNIVAC 1108, CDC 6600, Cray-1) includes one or more CPUs, RAM, memory management and protection circuits, I/O ports and/or channels, disk drives, tape drives, network interfaces, etc.

Some examples of software are: operating systems (e.g. CP/M, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, macOS X, Unix, Linux, EXEC-8, VMS, COS, UNICOS), I/O drivers, file management systems (e.g. FAT, NTFS, HFS+, ext2, ext3, Files-11), and applications (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OpenOffice, databases, games, high level language compilers, assemblers, payroll, tax preparation tools).

Answer 2

• hardware is the physical mechanism (usually electronic) that executes coded instructions, stores coded instructions and coded data, and performs a variety of data input/output operations
• software is the list of coded instructions that tell the hardware how to perform a specific useful task(s)

The hardware making up a given computer (e.g. PC, Mac, UNIVAC 1108, CDC 6600, Cray-1) includes one or more CPUs, RAM, memory management and protection circuits, I/O ports and/or channels, disk drives, tape drives, network interfaces, etc.

Some examples of software are: operating systems (e.g. CP/M, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, macOS X, Unix, Linux, EXEC-8, VMS, COS, UNICOS), I/O drivers, file management systems (e.g. FAT, NTFS, HFS+, ext2, ext3, Files-11), and applications (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OpenOffice, databases, games, high level language compilers, assemblers, payroll, tax preparation tools).