Question

Which of the following is not an example of hardware?

A.Scanner

B.Printer

C.Monitor

D.Interpreter
please answer only if you're sure​

Answer 1

Answer:

option A. scanner and option D. Interpreter both are not the examples of hardware.

Answer 2

The interpreter is not an example of hardware (option D)

Interpreter

• An interpreter is a software program that directly executes high-level programming or scripting language instructions without the need of having them compiled previously into machine language programs.
• Interpreters using different strategies for executing programs.
• Some interpreters parse the source and directly execute them.
• Other types of interpreters read the source translate them into an intermediate representation or object and execute them immediately.
• Interpreters can also execute stored compiled machine language made by a compiler.

Scanner

• A scanner is a hardware device attached to a computer or computer system to scan documents, convert them into an image format which can then be used by computer programs

Printer

• A printer is a hardware device attached to a computer or computer system to print documents using computer programs

Monitor

• The monitor is a hardware device attached to a computer’s output devices that visualizes the output from a computer on a display screen