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The software used to help run the computer hardware is known as operating system.
An operating system is software that resides between user applications and hardware. It's job is to manage hardware resources and allocate them to the user applications through processes such as memory management and process scheduling.
An operating system runs common services for computer programs and manages the computer hardware resources. An operating system is necessary to run application programs.
The operating system (OS) controls the hardware. A successful computer system will have hardware and an operating system. Application software is not required. All operating systems have a low level, or machine language to run the operation system and control all hardware.
The Operating System.
System software is a type of computer program that is designed to run a computer's hardware and application programs.
Hardware. Hardware(Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, etc.) are the physical components, software are the applications that run on the computer (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.)
Virtual memory is hardware that the computer uses to load the operating system and run all of the programs. It is stated that the more memory that the computer has, the faster the programs will run.
An operating system provide an interface between the user and hardware. operating system is a platform in which all the user applications can run
Hardware is hard, physical. Your hard drive is hardware, along with your screen, computer, mouse and printer. Software is programs that run on hardware. Microsoft Word, for example, is software. Hope this helps!
Android is an "operating system" - that is software - that can run on many manufacturers' computer hardware. There is no such thing as "an Android Box".
The software needed to run a computer is known as the Operating System. Many hardware platforms allow you to choose between multiple operating systems to suit your needs.