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If you imagine software as the words in a book, operating system as the language used to write the book, and hardware being the physical media the book is wrotten on (paper) then you can imagine the physical media wearing out (book pages get old and you can't read the text properly), you can imagine the operating system (language) changing/evolving over time (making the words not make sense any more), but the software itself should not wear out, you can read that book every day for 10 years heh.
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