write the difference between hardware and software ? give examples
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Answer:
hard wares can be touched
but softwares are only tool see
Explanation:
What is the difference between software and hardware?
Hardware can be dropped on your foot, software cannot.
Hardware is anything that you can touch. Software can be downloaded. Sometimes software comes on a USB stick or a CD. If it does, the software is what is written onto the stick or CD, what makes different from other sticks and CDs that look identical.
For a “correct” scientific answer you should just check wiki, but since you are asking here I assume you are looking for a simple explanation.
I will attempt to provide something that is not wrong, but quite a bit simplified:
Hardware is the term for physical IT units, screen, keyboard, case, phone, tablet, tablet camera etc.
Software is the term for programs running on hardware. That is, any program that runs from the moment you turn on your device and until you shut it off. Software is what tells the hardware what to do in order to comply with the command you send your device (open app by tapping icon on phone, start browser by clicking mouse, start Siri by saying “hey moron”, etc.).
What actually happens once one of these actions (or any other “action”) occur is a bit more complicated but basically the software written by some human is converted (through multiple steps) into 0’s and 1’s. These numbers are how the hardware and software communicate to store data and handle instructions only on the hardware it is not a 0 or a 1 it is like a light that is either on/off (GROSSLY simplified). Once you interact with your device these lights are then altered into a new state until all the software instructions are done for whatever action you took.
So as you can see neither Hardware nor Software is especially useful without the other.
Hope this clarifies it a bit.