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Software and its Types

In a computer system, the software is basically a set of instructions or commands that tells a computer what to do. Or in other words, the software is a computer program that provides a set of instructions to execute a user’s commands and tell the computer what to do. For example like MS-Word, MS-Excel, PowerPoint, etc. The chart below describes the types of software:

Above is the diagram of types of software. Now we will briefly describe each type and its subtypes :

System Software

System software is software that directly operates the computer hardware and provides the basic functionality to the users as well as to the other software to operate smoothly. Or in other words, system software basically controls a computer’s internal functioning and also controls hardware devices such as monitors, printers, and storage devices, etc. It is like an interface between hardware and user applications, it helps them to communicate with each other because hardware understands machine language(i.e. 1 or 0) whereas user applications are work in human-readable languages like English, Hindi, German, etc. so system software converts the human-readable language into machine language and vice versa.

Features of system software:

Let us discuss some of the features of System Software:

System Software is closer to the computer system.

System Software is written in a low-level language in general.

System software is difficult to design and understand.

System software is fast in speed(working speed).

System software is less interactive for the users in comparison to application software.

Types of system software:

It has two subtypes which are:

Operating System: It is the main program of a computer system. When the computer system ON it is the first software that loads into the computer’s memory.