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software

Wikipedia software (uncountable)

1. (computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
   • 1958, John W. Tukey, ""The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics"" in The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:

     The ""software"" comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its ""hardware"" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.

   • 1995, Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’:

     As originally conceived, the word ""software"" was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the ""hardware.""

Definizione dizionario software

	software
	encoded computer instructions
	The general term used to describe all of the various programs that may be used on a computer system. It can be divided into four main categories: systems software, development software, user interface software, applications software. (Source: POPTEL)
	Instructions that make hardware work.

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programma

Altri significati:

(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.