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No, this is a common misconception. The application layer is the interface between programs (applications) and the network layers.
A program is an application or an equivalent interface whereas a process is the underlying function or functions of a program
An operating system is a main program that serve as an interface between the users and the application programs.
OS is system application, which may be considered as collection of application made up of techniques for operating the pc & providing an environment for performance of programs. It's an user interface between user & pc...
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software is a collection of programsinteface is a accessing a application
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An operating system runs common services for computer programs and manages the computer hardware resources. An operating system is necessary to run application programs.
a software suite usually means a collection of software titles offered togather for sale or usually included with a new PC, an application suite means all the programs have a common purpose like Microsoft office which is mostly word processing or corel which is mostly graphics etc...
The keyboard and screen are often called the console, sometimes it's just the screen. The GUI (Graphical User Interface) is the application programs that allow you to point and click. The idea of a Graphical User Interface is that most of the computer controls are performed by moving a mouse and clicking on icons. To reiterate, the GUI is the application, the console is the hardware.
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