What is a System Software?

System software also known as operating system is a special software application that is used to control and operate the hardware of a Computing environment. Creating environment to run computer application software is another purpose of system software. This type of software helps hardware to work together by sharing and transferring data between them and also with the other external devices.

Use of system software ensures the usability of high level language because system software offers such an environment to the users so that they can write and run any software program that written by a high level language.

System software also helps to create server and client virtual environment for the multiple users so that they can access same device at a time. Most of the system software is capable to handle external devices such as mouse, keyboards, web cam and printer etc. System software interfaces this type of external devices with the computing environment. If you are willing to know more about system software then you can read some books on OS or you can research in internet.