System Software | MCQs

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System software acts as a bridge between the hardware and application software.

Some examples of system software are Operating System, Compilers, Interpreter, Assemblers, etc

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The type of software that is used to control a computer is known as the operating system (OS). 

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Assembler, Interpreter, and Compiler are all language processors used to convert code written in programming languages into machine code.

Operating system is not a language processor; it's system software that manages hardware and software resources.

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• software in computer can:
• enhance the quality of hardware,
• increase spending on CPU,
• increase computer security
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• Alan Turing is credited with being the first person to come up with a theory for software in 1935,
• The history of software and its development can be traced to the early nineteenth century. 
  
The history of software development began in England in 1948

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• Software is a set of instructions, data, or programs used to operate computers and execute specific tasks.
  
• It is the opposite of hardware
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• Graphical representation is Software in Computer technology
  

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System software that helps OS to communicate with a device is called a Device driver. An operating system (OS) is a type of system software that controls how computer hardware and software resources are used and offer basic services to other software applications.

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System software acts as a bridge between the hardware and application software.

System software consists of programs that run in the background, enabling applications to run.