difference between hardware,software and firmware
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Explanation:
Software is the most temporary and malleable. Firmware is semi-permanent software that's tied more directly to the hardware and updated less often, and hardware is the physical components that are most permanent. Permanence and update change frequency—it's an interesting way to think about it
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Comparison between Firmware and Hardware:
Firmware Hardware
Definition Firmware is a set of instructions or programs written in machine language which are used to operate hardware. The term ‘hardware’ is used to refer to the physical components of any electronic devices such as the CPU, peripheral device and its memory.
Form It is the set of instructions. It is the physical unit of a device.
Storage It is stored in hardware. It is a complete unit or device.
Change and modification
It cannot be or is hardly changed after production.
It is not easily modified by the user.
It can be changed after production.
It is easily modified by the user.
Reference It is the heart of the device. It is the body of the device.
Example EPROM chips, BIOS, etc. Keyboard, remote, speakers
Software is a set of instructions, data or programs used to operate computers and execute specific tasks. Opposite of hardware, which describes the physical aspects of a computer, software is a generic term used to refer to applications, scripts and programs that run on a device. Software can be thought of as the variable part of a computer and hardware the invariable part.