How do a computer’s hardware and software actually connect?
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There are layers of increasingly complex software that tell the hardware what to do. The entire system runs on binary code. For software, that means 1s and 0s. For hardware, it means on or off and that refers to electrical circuits. Every computer has a basic set of instructions hard coded onto a microchip that triggers when you power on the computer. It wakes up all the hardware, runs a quick diagnostic, and then triggers the next layer. The last thing before you take over is the operating system, like Windows, being loaded from wherever it’s stored, usually a hard drive or SSD.
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