Tuesday, March 11, 2014

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

 HARDWARE

1.It is the physical unit of the computer
2. It has permanent structure and cannot be altered
3. It is normally affected by agent like dust, heat, humidity, etc
4. Hardware understands only machine language ,lower level language or binary
5. It works with binary code, the presenceor absence of Pulses as 1’s or 0’s.

SOFTWARE

1.It is a collection of programs to bring the hardware system into operation
2. It has no permanent structure but can be altered and reused
3. It is not affected by these agents to some extent
4. It is written by a well versed programmer and generally in higher level language which is readable by human being
5. It is represented by the Higher Level Languages such as BASIC, COBOL,
Etc.

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