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Software vs Devkit - What's the difference?

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In computing terms the difference between software and devkit

is that software is encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware while devkit is a set of development tools that allow the creation of software for a particular platform or framework.

software

English

Noun

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  • (computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
  • * 1958 , John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly , vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:
    • The "software " comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
  • * 1995 , Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’ :
    • As originally conceived, the word "software " was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."

    Usage notes

    Software'' is a mass noun (''some software'', ''a piece of software''). By non-native speakers it is sometimes erroneously treated as a countable noun (''a software'', ''some softwares ).

    Hyponyms

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    Related terms

    * adware * bloatware * firmware * freeware * hardware * malware * schlockware * shareware * spyware * vaporware * wetware

    See also

    * application * assembly * assembler * bug * code * coding * compilation * compiler * debugging * interpreter * linking * linker * open source * patch * programming * script * utilities * warez

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    devkit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia devkit)
  • (computing) A set of development tools that allow the creation of software for a particular platform or framework.
  • * 2007 , Frank H. P. Fitzek, Frank Reichert, Mobile Phone Programming and Its Application to Wireless Networks (page 178)
    • A devkit basically contains a set of software tools, and several of them can be installed into a target.
  • * 2009 , Luis Levy, Jeannie Novak, Game Development Essentials: Game QA & Testing
    • Sony's devkits are large, to say the least. The Dreamcast, on the other hand, was very much a Microsoft animal and friendlier to code and test.