3 Software
3.1 Introduction
Software is one of the major components of the technological aspect of any information system. To fully understand information technology, you will need to know how the software component works.
3.2 Software
Hardware must be told what to do. Software operates directly on hardware devices and tells (instructs) the hardware what to do as well as when and how to do it. Although the CPU of a computer consists of hardware that acts as the computer’s brain, the CPU is useless without the software’s instruction. In the previous chapter we introduced the analogy of bike riding to help explain hardware. Continuing with that analogy, we can see that the knowledge of how to ride the bike and ...
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