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Why does a computer combine the hardware and software?

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There are a couple of good, complete answers to your question. I wonder if you are actually wondering how not why computers combine hardware and software. For an answer to how they do that, I'd still refer to Farshad's answer. read more

Hardware (in terms of electronics) are the physical components of a computer. Software can be simply defined as a set of instructions. The reason a computer must combine hardware and software is because if software did not exist to tell the hardware what to do and how to communicate with other components, they would never do anything. read more

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