Capabilities and characteristic of software__ processing

processing

• The term software refers to the instruction that control operations of the computer hardware. It has tree major functions:

• 1. it allows the effective application of hardware to solve the problem.

• 2. it allows efficient management of computer resources.

• 3. it is the interface between the users or organization and its stored information.

Two main types of software

• 1. system software

• 2. application software

Application software

• Individual programs: have a single purpose or single function

• integrated package : combine a range of key software types, such as word processing , spread sheet , database and drawing.

• Software suites: combine the range of individual package into a system that integrates features from all the packages but still provides full functionality in each application.

System software

• This allows the user to interact with the computer and the peripherals that ‘’plug into.’’

Three main components of system software

• ROM

• DEVICE DRIVERS

• OPERATING SYSTEM

ROM

• Contains a