Software and Hardware

You can actually touch the hardware but not software.

What is hardware?

The term hardware of a computer system refers to the actual machine and the components or those parts of a computer system that you can actually touch. The keyboard, the monitor, and the system units are all hardware of the computer. As the hardware always refer to the input and output device of the computer system, hardware sometimes would be recognized as the peripheral devices (peripherals).

The term software refers to the program that is running on a computer system. It consists of the commands or instructions that are used to turn the hardware into a tool for certain purpose, such as the application program, the operation system (OS) of the computer. You cannot touch a piece of software like touching a piece of hardware. It cannot be touched and it is invisible. The analogy of taking hardware as the human body and software as the soul is often used.

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