COMPUTER SOFTWARE
TYPES OF SOFTWARE
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The term software was first used by Mr David c jack in the year 1967
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The term software was used by John W. Tukey n the year 1957
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -John W. Tukey, a chemist and statistician, is credited with the first printed use of the term when he wrote a scientific article in 1958.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “software” was first used in print by John W. Tukey in 1958. The term is often used to mean application software. In computer science and software engineering, software is all information processed by computer system, programs and data.
Detailed explanation-3: -While working with John von Neumann on early computer designs, Tukey introduced the word “bit” as a portmanteau of “binary digit".
Detailed explanation-4: -John Tukey, 85, Statistician; Coined the Word ‘Software’
Detailed explanation-5: -Etymology. From soft +-ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined by Paul Niquette in 1953; first used in print by Richard Carhart in 1953.