OMIS 3710 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Price Tag, Web Browser, Email Client

• School: York University
• Department: Operations Management and Information System
• Course: OMIS 3710
• Professor: Henry Kim

Document Summary

Chapter 13: understanding software: a primer for managers. Computer hardware: the physical components of information technology, which can include the computer itself plus peripherals such as storage devices, input devices like the mouse and keyboard, output devices like monitors and printers, networking equipment, and so on. Software: a computer program or a collection of programs. It is a precise set of instructions that tells hardware what to do. Operating system: the software that controls the computer hardware and establishes standards for developing and executing applications. Applications: includes desktop applications, enterprise software, utilities, and other programs that perform specific tasks for users and organizations. Bitcoin uses a blockchain the largest application of blockchain. The operating system (os) (cid:272)o(cid:374)trols a (cid:272)o(cid:373)puter"s hard(cid:449)are a(cid:374)d pro(cid:448)ides a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) set of commands for writing programs. Most computing devices (enterprise-class server computers, pcs, phones, set-top boxes, video games, cars, the mars rover) have an operating system.