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It is made up of only Software; or else you would get a physical item [except the disc] with packages like Norton...

Hardware = physical piece(s) of equipment [i.e. motherboard,graphics card, RAM etc.]

Software = code that makes up a program which can be executed [opened] by the Operating system [i.e. Anti viruses, Firewalls, Games etc.]

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