The Relationship between an Application program, the operating system and hardware

Computer Hardware consists of the physical components that make up a computer. Some examples are and Microprocessor, a Hard Drive, or a Motherboard.


Computer Software consists of applications or programs that the user runs on a computer, such as a word processor or a video game.

An Operating System is a specific piece of software that allows other software to manipulate computer hardware to achieve a desired effect. Some Operating Systems are Microsoft Windows, Unix/Linux, or Apple OS

Basically the three interact as follows:

Hardware <-> Operating System <-> Software
(<-> specifies an interaction between two components.)

In addition computer hardware deal with different devices that interact into the computer software then it show the capacity and data of the applications while the operating system it is the combination of performance which spreadout to access each other components.