What is meant by computer hardware and software?

Answer 1

Hardware includes the physical components, such as the motherboard, chips, memory, and hard drives, while software includes the programs that run on the hardware. Ergo, a computer is hardware, while an operating system such as Windows 8, Linux, or Mac OSx Mountain Lion is the software that makes the hardware functional.

Answer 2

Hardware is a physical component that exists in machinery. This is usually the actual arm or a piece of it on the outside, or items that make the machine work. In computers, a piece of hardware would be the fan, or the motherboard.

A piece of software is a program or piece of data that is run by hardware (or multiple items of hardware put together) to complete a task or function. Software would include operating systems, games, and other applications.

Roughly speaking, if you can touch it, it's hardware. The software is the code which runs computers - such as operations software, or which allows us to do things with a comouter, such as applications software, or utilities software.

Answer 3

Hardware, all the physical part of computer system that can be touched are termed as hardware, such as keyboard, mouce, moniter and other peripheral devices and components.

Softwaer, software refers to the collection of instructions (programs) that makes hardware

Answer 4

The hardware of a computer are its physical parts such as the monitor and the tower. Software are the internal applications such as internet explorer.

Answer 5

Hardware is physical items

such as chips, processers, motherboards, and Hard drives.

Software are nonphysical things such as programs.