Labels:book | bulletin board | chair | hakham | poster | sky OCR: 120 CHAPTER 3 SECTION Software Basics COMIPUTER SOFTWARE determines the tasks computer can TERMINOLOGY NOTE help you accomplish Some software helps you create documents while The term software was other software helps you block viruses or fine tune your computer per- formance Section delves into the characteristics of application software once used for all non- utilities, and device drivers hardware components of computer In this context SOFTWARE CATEGORIES software referred to com- What is software? As you learned in Chapter the instructions that tell puter progra 'ams and to the computer how to carry out task are referred to as computer program. data the programs used It These programs form the software that prepares computer to dc could also refer to any specific task, such as document ...
