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Which of the following programs give instructions about operations inside the computer?

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System software
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Application
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Utility id) Compiler
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None of the above
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Solution

The correct option is A System software

System software programs give instructions about operations inside the computer.

The term was coined to differentiate these instructions from hardware—i.e., the physical components of a computer system. A set of instructions that directs a computer's hardware to perform a task is called a program, or software program. The two main types of software are system software and application software.

System software is computer software designed to provide a platform to other software. Examples of system software include operating systems like macOS and Windows, computational science software, game engines, industrial automation, and software as a service applications.

In computer science, an instruction is a single operation of a processor defined by the processor instruction set. The size or length of an instruction varies widely, from as little as 4-bits in some microcontrollers to many as multiples of a bytes in some very long instruction word (VLIW) systems.


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