Friday, 16 April 2010

software vocab words

Algorithm-a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.

Applications software-designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks

Boot-to restart.

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs)-a type of user interface item that allows people to interact with programs in more ways than typing

Language translators-helps people who cant speak certain languages

MS-DOS-is an operating system

Multitasking-to do more than one thing at the same particular time

Network operating system-is an operating system that contains components and programs that allow a computer on a network to serve requests from other computers for data and provide access to other resources

Operating systems-that provides an interface between the hardware and other software

Software development-is the act of working to produce/create software.

Systems software-is computer software designed to operate the computer hardware and to provide and maintain a platform for running application software

Unix-is a computer operating system

User interface-is a place where interaction between humans and machines occurs.

Utility software-is a kind of system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer.

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