What is Software

What is Software? Software is the collection of programming instructions with the purpose of task completion. It can again be refers of set of machine readable instructions that can control the processor and other hardware to accomplish an operation or task. Impact software is anything that exist in electronic devices that human cannot see physically, feel or touch in any way but can see its impact in todays life.

Software is not limited to what we always think ie computer or phones, rather software is present in almost everything that can manipulate itself electronically. Software can be found on television, Cars, digital watch, fridge (fridge? Yeah we have smart fridges and even digital ones), radio and many electronic devices.

Types of Software

• System Software
• Application Software

People do get confused what about the difference between the duo! I will try as much as I can to break things and by the grace of God after finish reading this article you will never be confused again!

System Software

Let me start by defining what is a system. A system is a collection of software and hardware to perform a task. Don't bother much about the hardware as for now, will treat it in a different article. As for now take hardware as anything in a system that human can touch and feel. System can again be seen as the integrating of interrelating or independent components to form a whole organization with the purpose of completing a task or delivering a particular service.

System software is any software that runs within the system, which the system cannot do without! Lets take for example A human system. Wait!!! thought you said electronically! Yeah! But don't you know human-beings are systems too! How? Humans comprises of software and hardware! Our soul can only be imagined but never seen, this is an example of human software while the body eg head, hand, legs, intestine can be seen as human system hard... ohk! Human soul in the body is the main system software! Without soul the body is as good as nothing! The body cannot manipulate itself without soul, what happen when human dies can be seen as the absent of the human soul in the system. Which we all know

That's exactly what happens on computer systems or any other electronic device. Electronic devices without the system software are as good as nothing! The main basic types of system softwares are:-
• Firmware
• Operating system OS

Firmware:- This can be seen as the most basic piece of software which controls everything a hardware is. Sometimes we get confused between what OS and  firmwares are. Think of a computer without a hard-drive can that computer power up? Searching your database for answers...... yeah definitely that computer will surely come up! Wait! How and why? Ok open your computer and try it! I didn't send you! Before police will arrive at my door, because I made you caused damage on your device! Laughing..  joke apart it will surely power up! The reasons are simple! When user press the power key, after electronic signals trigger and starts anything that needs power, the processor will first check if the RAM random access memory is present, then go to flash memory where the firmware is stored, copy it and load it on RAM. Its a hardware so no need for it as for now we shall discuss them in the hardware article just stay tuned). If no firmware is present systems cannot startup! So basically the Firmware is the soul of every system. Without Firmware there will surely no electronic systems. Just like I have already said human being is as good as nothing, impact its called dead without the soul.

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To be continued