Welcome to the computer world. Practice materials for 1st year students. Еранина Т.И - 29 стр.

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            Applications software satisfies your specific need. The
developers of application software rely mostly on marketing research
strategies trying to do their best to attract more users (buyers) to their
software. As the productivity of the hardware has increased greatly in
recent years, the programmers nowadays tend to include all kinds of
gimmicks in one program to make software interface look more
attractive to the user. These class of programs is the most numerous and
perspective from the marketing point of view.
            Data communication within and between computers systems
is handled by system software.
            Communications software transfers data from one computer
system to another. These programs usually provide users with data
security and error checking along with physically transferring data
between the two computer's memories. During the past five years the
developing electronic network communication has stimulated more and
more companies to produce various communication software, such as
Web-Browsers for Internet.

Vocabulary:

to direct — управлять
to conduct — проводить
to complete — завершать
equipment — оборудование
internal — внутренний
to require — требовать
control — управление
specific — конкретный, определенный
general-purpose — многоцелевой
aid — помощь
regard — отношение
regardless — безотносительно, несмотря на
memory capacity — вместимость памяти
to install — устанавливать, встраивать, инсталлировать
to transfer — переводить, переносить
to provide with — обеспечивать чем-либо
to secure — обеспечивать безопасность
security — безопасность
to develop — развивать, проявлять
developer — разработчик
to check — проверять
attach — присоединять