Primary Definition of Conformity Science-based Application

• all or part of the algorithms, programs, procedures, rules, and associated documentation of a requirements processing system (including "software", "hardware" (both classical computing and non-classical (quantum and quantum-unification) computing functioning in a consensus-standards-based operating environment that establishes rules-based consensus truth and transmits trust through transparent, traceable, verifiable, record-immutable, fact non-repudiable processes and standards-based, competent and proficiently competent, humans.

• Defined by Anoop Bungay of Calgary, Alberta; definition developed between at least as early as August 14, 2001 and Present day (2020+)

• Source: www.conformityware.com 

Primary Definition of Hardware

• all or part of the physical components of an information processing system

Note 1 to entry: Example: Computers, peripheral devices.

Note 2 to entry: hardware: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993].

Note 3 to entry: 01.01.07 (2382)

[SOURCE: ISO-IEC-2382-1 * 1993 * * * ]

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Primary Definition of Software

• <fundamental terms> all or part of the programs, procedures, rules, and associated documentation of an information processing system

Note 1 to entry: Software is an intellectual creation that is independent of the medium on which it is recorded.

Note 2 to entry: software: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993].

Note 3 to entry: 01.01.08 (2382)

[SOURCE: ISO-IEC-2382-1 * 1993 * * * ]

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