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Current trends in hardware and software include the increasing use of reduced instruction-set computing, migration to the UNIX operating system, the development of large software libraries, microprocessor-based smart terminals that allow remote validation of data, speech synthesis and recognition, application.
Computer hardware is any physical device used in or with your machine, whereas software is a collection of codes installed onto your computer's hard drive. In a computer, hardware is what makes a computer work. A CPU processes data and that information can be stored in RAM or on a hard drive. A sound card can offer sound to speakers and a video card can provide an image to a monitor. All of this is hardware.
Hardware refers to the physical elements of a computer. Also referred to as the machinery or the equipment of the computer.
If hardware is damaged, it is replaced with new one.
If software is damaged, its backup copy can be reinstalled.