Computing: 20 years

TASK: Twenty years of the PC. Has software been held back by hardware limitations, or has hardware developments been held back by shortcomings in software. Over the years, computer systems have been built with two main components. Firstly, hardware, being the physical mechanism allowing manipulation of data and the controlling of various inputs, outputs and storage capabilities. Secondly, software, dividing into two parts, application and system. This has the task of letting the hardware know …

…seen that software is time and again trying to keep up with these advances. This is shown with the constant need for new software to be designed whenever there is a development in the hardware side. However it must be seen that keeping up have hindered development, it must be stressed with the ever changing hardware, although it may the great difficulties have undergone to progress in a field which is always on the move.