Software And Hardware Application. In other words hardware is something you can hold in your hand whereas software cannot be held in your hand. You can touch hardware but you cannot touch software.
Practical computer systems divide software systems into three major classes. Software is affected by computer viruses. Computer hardware is any physical device used in or with your machine whereas software is a collection of programming code installed on your computers hard drive.
Input device output devices storage and internal components.
An application is basically a type of software. We can see and also use the software but cant actually touch them. The most common set of requirements defined by any operating system or software application is the physical computer resources also known as hardware A hardware requirements list is often accompanied by a hardware compatibility list HCL especially in case of operating systems. Helps run the computer hardware and computer system itself.