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| | Platform (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Typical platforms include a computer's architecture, operating system, or programming languages and their runtime libraries. |
 | | In relation to hardware, platform often describes the set of hardware components that make up the computer itself that the software is written to target to (often just described as "written for an architecture"). |
 | | Pure assembly language can be run on this hardware platform, but most commonly, operating system software is written to target the hardware platform, but in doing so, becomes a platform in itself, facilitating the running of other software that is used to target the operating system, and likewise the hardware architecture. |
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