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Basically, yes. The software contains the instructions for the hardware.
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What does software tell the hardware what to do?
Basically, yes. The software contains the instructions for the hardware.
Is a microprocessor hardware or software?
If you can throw it across the room, it's hardware. The instruction set(s) is software. Example: Your child is hardware (don't throw him or her across the room). If you tell your kid to go to bed, that instruction is software.
Instructions that tell the hardware what to do?
operating software
Is VDU hardware or software?
A VDU is hardware.
Difference of hardware and software?
Hardware is the equipment, everything on the computer that actually exists, everything you can see and touch. Software is the programs on the computer, it is the programming, the instructions which tell computer what to do.
Is scanner a hardware or software?
A scanner is both hardware and software, the device itself is hardware (all devices are hardware) but the driver(a program) that runs it is software.
Is RAM software or hardware?
hardware
Is a microphone a hardware or software?
A microphone is hardware. Software is what programs and games are called.
Is a computer a software of hardware?
both a hardware and software
Is the motherboard hardware or software?
Motherboards are hardware components, not software.
What was first software or hardware?
Have to be hardware. How could you write software if there were no hardware to write it on?
Why is hardware needed in a computer?
Software. Short and sweet. Hardware needs software to work.
