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OCR: To many computer users, the difference between system software pue applications soft- ware seems somewhat arbitrary. To clarify the difference you can generally classify soft- ware a system software if the only reason you need that software because you have computer. For example if you didn't have computer you would not need an operatinc system, or device driv ers or computer programming lanquaqes You would software in the application software category if it computerizes something you might do even without computer. For example you would write letters and papers even you didn't have computer so the software you use to create documents would be classified as application software Admitt edly. some software 1S still difficult to classify For example , the software you use to conne ct your com ...