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It is a general term for the various kinds of programs used to operate computers and related devices. It is the term used to describe the instructions that cause the computer system to behave in a given way. It may be available for installation non-transiently on another machine. For software which exists only to create an interactive environment, use interactive instead. It is stored on disk, tape or cartridge that can be loaded into random access memory (RAM). Software, in essence, tells the computer what to do.