computer software that operates computer hardware and provides a platform on which applications may be run
systems software in American English
noun
Computing
a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system
Word origin
[1975–80]This word is first recorded in the period 1975–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bench press, family therapy, hybridoma, noogie, videotex
Examples of 'systems software' in a sentence
systems software
The delay is being blamed on difficulties with the flight systems software and also with assembly documentation.