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Software Studies: A lexicon,
ed. Matthew Fuller
1. hardware that connects users to hardware; typically input/
output devices such as keyboards or sensors, and feedback
devices such as loudspeakers;
2. hardware that connects hardware to hardware; such as
network interconnection points and bus systems;
3. software, or hardware-embedded logic, that connects hardware
to software; the instruction set of a processor or device drivers,
for example;
4. specifications and protocols that determine relations between
software and software, that is, application programming
interfaces (APIs);
5. symbolic handles, which, in conjunction with (a), make software
accessible to users; that is, "user interfaces," often mistaken in
media studies for "interface" as a whole.
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