What (who) is system software - definition

COMPUTER SOFTWARE THAT PROVIDES A PLATFORM FOR RUNNING APPLICATION SOFTWARE

System utility (system engineering); Systems program; Systems software; System utilities; System utility

system software

ORIGINAL OPERATING SYSTEM OF APPLE MAC (1984–2001)

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<operating system> Any software required to support the production or execution of application programs but which is not specific to any particular application. System software typically includes an operating system to control the execution of other programs; user environment software such as a command-line interpreter, {window system}, desktop; development tools for building other programs such as assemblers, compilers, linkers, libraries, interpreters, cross-reference generators, version control, make; debugging, profiling and monitoring tools; utility programs, e.g. for sorting, printing, and editting. Different people would classify some or all of the above as part of the operating system while others might say the operating system was just the kernel. Some might say system software includes utility programs like sort. (2007-02-02)

System software

ORIGINAL OPERATING SYSTEM OF APPLE MAC (1984–2001)

System software is software designed to provide a platform for other software. Examples of system software include operating systems (OS) like macOS, Linux, Android and Microsoft Windows, computational science software, game engines, search engines, industrial automation, and software as a service applications.

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ACM Software System Award

AWARD BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY

Software System Award; ACM Software Systems Award

The ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It is awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1983, with a cash prize sponsored by IBM of currently $35,000.

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Wikipedia

System software

System software is software designed to provide a platform for other software. Examples of system software include operating systems (OS) (like macOS, Linux, Android and Microsoft Windows), computational science software, game engines, search engines, industrial automation, and software as a service applications.

Application software is software that allows users to do user-oriented tasks such as create text documents, play or develop games, create presentations, listen to music, draw pictures or browse the web.

In the late 1940s, the early days of computing, most application software was custom-written by computer users to fit their specific hardware and requirements. System software was usually supplied by the manufacturer of the computer hardware and was intended to be used by most or all users of that system.

Many operating systems come pre-packaged with basic application software. Such software is not considered system software when it can be uninstalled without affecting the functioning of other software. Examples of such software are games and simple editing tools supplied with Microsoft Windows, or software development toolchains supplied with many Linux distributions.

Some of the grayer areas between system and application software are web browsers integrated deeply into the operating system such as Internet Explorer in some versions of Microsoft Windows, or ChromeOS and where the browser functions as the only user interface and the only way to run programs (and other web browsers can not be installed in their place).

Cloud-based software is another example of systems software, providing services to a software client (usually a web browser or a JavaScript application running in the web browser), not to the user directly. It is developed using system programming methodologies and systems programming languages.

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Pronunciation examples for system software

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Examples of use of system software

1. Ltd. to allow the sale of PCs with pre–installed, licensed Windows operating system software.

2. "These Indian companies offer their services to specialized areas such as legacy system software and manufacturing design services," he notes.

3. It had sales of about $80 million in 2007, and provides hardware, system software, peripheral devices, communication and data protection solutions, as well as project management services.

4. Retalix (TASE: RTLX) jumped 4.6 percent after it was reported that German Wincor–Nixdorf was negotiating to buy the retail system software supplier.

5. The latest agreement is similar to one inked last year, worth $1.2 billion over a year, to pre–install Microsoft‘s Windows operating system software on Lenovo‘s computers.