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Programming with C & C+ Unit - I

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System Software: System software consists of programs that manage the hardware resources
of a computer and perform required information processing tasks. These programs are divided
into three classes: the operating system, system support, and system development.
The operating system provides services such as a user interface, file and database
access, and interfaces to communication systems such as Internet protocols. The primary
purpose of this software is to keep the system operating in an efficient manner while allowing
the users access to the system.
System support software provides system utilities and other operating services.
Examples of system utilities are sort programs and disk format programs. Operating services
consists of programs that provide performance statistics for the operational staff and security
monitors to protect the system and data.
The last system software category, system development software, includes the language
translators that convert programs into machine language for execution ,debugging tools to
ensure that the programs are error free and computer -assisted software engineering(CASE)
systems.

Mr. Phanindra KumarKatakam, Asst. Professor, Univ. Arts & Science College, KU,
Wgl.
Programming with C & C+ Unit - I
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Application software: Application software is broken in to two classes:


general-purpose software and application - specific software. General
purpose software is purchased from a software developer and can be used
for more than one application. Examples of general purpose software
include word processors, database management systems ,and computer
aided design systems. They are labeled general purpose because they can
solve a variety of user computing problems.
Application -specific software can be used only for its intended purpose.
A general ledger system used by accountants and a material
requirements planning system used by a manufacturing organization are
examples of application-specific software. They can be used only for the
task for which they were designed they cannot be used for other generalized
tasks. The relationship between system and application software is shown
below. In this figure, each circle represents an interface point .The inner core
is hard ware. The user is represented by the out layer. To work with the
system, the typical user uses some form of application software. The
application software in turn interacts with the operating system, which is a
part of the system software layer. The system software provides the direct
interaction with the hard ware. The opening at the bottom of the figure is
the path followed by the user who interacts directly with the operating
system when necessary.

COMPUTER LANGUAGES
To write a program (tells what to do) for a computer, we must use a
computer language. Over the years computer languages have evolved from
machine languages to natural languages.
The following is the summary of
computer languages
1940‘s -- Machine
Languages
1950‘s --
Symbolic
Languages
1960‘s --
High Level
Languages

Mr. Phanindra KumarKatakam, Asst. Professor, Univ. Arts & Science College, KU,
Wgl.

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