Software

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Software is considered to be the parts of the computer architecture that you cannot touch but only see its output on the screen, printer, or whatever output device there is.

Software controls the computer's operation and provides the logic for processing input and output of the computer.

A typical Von-Neumann-Computer loads program code from persistent memory into non-persistent memory and passes the code to the CPU for interpretation. The code then controls the CPU which controls the PC.

Software code is normally saved in files as machine code for the designeted hardware on storage units like floppy, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, hard drives, flash memory.