computer hardware and software and gaming... Computer software, or simply software, is that part of a computer system that consists of encoded information or computer instructions, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built. Overview[edit] The term "software" was first proposed by Alan Turing[citation needed] and used in this sense by John W. Tukey in 1957.[citation needed] In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs and data. Computer hardware is the collection of physical components that constitute a computer system. Computer hardware is the physical parts or components of a computer, such as monitor, keyboard, computer data storage, hard disk drive (HDD), graphic card, sound card, memory (RAM), motherboard, and so on, all of which are tangible physical objects.[1] By contrast, software is instructions that can be stored and run by hardware. Hardware is directed by the software

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