COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -A computing platform or digital platform is an environment in which a piece of software is executed. It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser and associated application programming interfaces, or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed with it.

Detailed explanation-2: -A computer platform-also called digital platform or computing platform-generally refers to the operating system and computer hardware only. An example of a computing platform is a modern laptop running Windows as an operating system. Another example would be an Apple computer running the Mac OS X operating system.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. a major piece of software, as an operating system, an operating environment, or a database, under which various smaller application programs can be designed to run.

Detailed explanation-4: -Operating system (OS) – a software that controls and coordinates the computer hardware devices and runs other software and applications on a computer.