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  2. Utility software - Wikipedia

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    Utility software is a program specifically designed to help manage and tune system or application software. It is used to support the computer infrastructure - in contrast to application software , which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users.

  3. Computer program - Wikipedia

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    A utility program is designed to aid system administration and software execution. Operating systems execute hardware utility programs to check the status of disk drives, memory, speakers, and printers. [140] A utility program may optimize the placement of a file on a crowded disk. System utility programs monitor hardware and network performance.

  4. Application software - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Common types of applications include word processor, media player and accounting software. The term application software refers to all applications collectively [3] and can be used to differentiate from system and utility software. Applications may be bundled with the computer and its system software or published separately.

  5. Utility computing - Wikipedia

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    Utility computing, or computer utility, is a service provisioning model in which a service provider makes computing resources and infrastructure management available to the customer as needed, and charges them for specific usage rather than a flat rate. Like other types of on-demand computing (such as grid computing), the utility model seeks to ...

  6. Software - Wikipedia

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    The integrated circuit is an essential invention to produce modern software systems. [2] The first use of the word software is credited to mathematician John Wilder Tukey in 1958. [3] The first programmable computers, which appeared at the end of the 1940s, [4] were programmed in machine language.

  7. Spreadsheet - Wikipedia

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    The program operates on data entered in cells of a table. Each cell may contain either numeric or text data, or the results of formulas that automatically calculate and display a value based on the contents of other cells. The term spreadsheet may also refer to one such electronic document. [5] [6] [7]

  8. PuTTY - Wikipedia

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    PuTTY user manual (copy from 2022) PuTTY (/ ˈ p ʌ t i /) [4] is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection.

  9. Text editor - Wikipedia

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    An example of such program is "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). [1] [2] [3] Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be used to change files such as configuration files, documentation files and programming language source code. [4]