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Period 7-8 Typing of Software

Software is a set of instructions or programs that tell the hardware of a computer what to do. There are three main types of software: system software like operating systems, application software like word processors and spreadsheets, and utility software for system maintenance and repair. Hardware refers to the physical components of a computer like the monitor, keyboard, and CPU. The operating system is system software that manages computer resources and processes.

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Period 7-8 Typing of Software

Software is a set of instructions or programs that tell the hardware of a computer what to do. There are three main types of software: system software like operating systems, application software like word processors and spreadsheets, and utility software for system maintenance and repair. Hardware refers to the physical components of a computer like the monitor, keyboard, and CPU. The operating system is system software that manages computer resources and processes.

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Software

This is a program. We cannot see/feel it.

A set of instructions given to a system


for performing specific task.

Software is a set of instructions or programs


designed to perform a specific or particular task.
Software

• Software means computer instructions or


data.

• Software is a collection of computer


programs and related data that provides the
instructions for telling a computer what to do
and how to do it.
Three types of Software
 System Software
(win 95/98,win-7)

 Application Software
(MS Office)

 Utilities
(antivirus)
SYSTEM SOFTWARE

System software is computer software designed to


operate the computer hardware, to provide basic
functionality, and to provide a platform for running
application software.

System software includes


device drivers,
operating systems,
servers,
and window systems.
APPLICATION SOFTWARE
These are the programs written for the execution of specific task, for instance the
payroll system of CRPF. Here the instruction codes are written keeping in view the
requirements in CRPF. Another example is MS WORD, this program is used for word
processing like making/managing documents. So in this case the application is
documentation and the program written for this purpose i.e. MS WORD is application
program.

Word Processing Data management


WordStar dBase-III Plus
Word Perfect Fox-Pro
MS-Word, Text Document MS-Access
Lyrix Oracle
Data Analysis Desk Top Publishing
Lotus 1-2-3 Page Maker
MS-Excel , Spread Sheet Corel Draw
SCO Professional Press Works
Language Processor
Fortran
Cobol,Prolog,Compiler
C++
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UTILITIES
These are the programs used for
maintenance and repair of the system.
e.g. PCTOOLS, Anti-virus software (like
Mc-Café, Avira antivirus, E-Trust, Norton
etc), Data Recovery, Disk Defragmenter,
Disk Clean-up, Disk Manager etc.

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HARDWARE
All the components of a computer that are
tangible or touchable is known as Hardware

or

The physical components of a computer.

Example :
Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, CPU,
Scanner, Printer, Plotter, Hard disk,
CDD, Mother board and RAM.
Hardware - Software analogy
Books provide a useful analogy.

The pages and the ink are the hardware,

while the words, sentences, paragraphs, and the overall meaning are
the software.
S/W - H/W
The distinction between software and hardware is sometimes confusing
because both are so necessary for usable computing system.

Clearly, when you purchase a program, you are buying software.

But to buy the software, you need to buy the disk (hardware) on which
the software is recorded.
SYSTEM SOFTWARE OR OPERATING
SYSTEM
Normally user interacts with the computer through a special program which will
always be running. This program is known as System software or Operating system.
It basically control the operation of a computer. Basic function of operating system
are
 Memory Management
 Device Management
 Process Management
 Information Management
Generally we classified operating system USER
in two categories
 Single User OS
(DOS, Windows 95/98/Me/Xp
Vista, Windows7)
 Multi User OS HARD
(Windows NT/2000, UNIX & Linux etc) WARE

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Operating System
An integrated set of special programs
that are used to manage resources and
overall operation of computer.
Examples of OS are:
UNIX
DOS
WIN 95/98
WIN 7 ,WIN 8,WIN 8.1,WIN 10
Functions of OS
 Memory management

 Device management

 Process management

 Information management
COMPUTER

HW SW LIVEWARE FIRMWARE

CPU PERIPHERALS

I/PUT O/PUT STORAGE


CTRL-UNIT ALU MEMORY
KB SCANNER MOUSE PRINTER

PRIMARY SECONDRY MONITOR

MAGNATIC OPTICAL
RAM ROM

FLOPPY R/ONLY
PROM
STATIC DYNAMIC WRITE ONLY
HARD DISC
EPROM
R/W
ASYN.RAM DRAM
EEPROM
SYN.RAM SDRAM

EDORAM EAPROM
CPU
PC Buying Guide
Pentium IV 3.2 GHz (or) Dual Core 3.2 GHz (or) Core 2 Duo
Processor, with 2 MB Cache memory

Memory 512 MB (or) 1GB of DDR-SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM) 800 MHz FSB or 2 GB
DDR2 RAM
Motherboard - Intel / Intel Chipset 915G ,945 or 965 (Vista Ready) series
Hard disk Minimum of 80 Gigabyte ,160 GB,200GB ( ATA/SATA Connectors) capacity having 7200
RPM (Seagate)
Floppy Disk 1.44 MB drive
Optical Device- CD Writer 52x32x52x (or) Combo Drive 52x32x52x & 16x. (or) DVD 16x (Digital
Versatile Diskette) as required (x=150 Kbps for CD and x= 1.385Mbps for DVD)

Monitor 15”, 17” & 21” SVGA, TFT or CRT


Mouse Track Ball/Optical Scroll Mouse
Keyboard 132 Keys Keyboard (Switch type)

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