In the operating software for computer Apple Macintosh, an accessory office (DA) was a piece of software, originally written as a module management device, according to a programming model. The purpose of this model was to allow the aid-type very small applications to be run at the same time than any other application on the system. This has provided a small degree of multitasking on a system that initially had no other treatment capacity multitasking.

In OS, the DA has actually been implemented as a special class driver. It was installed in the queue driver, and the time given periodically and cooperatively due to the application centre server calls SystemTask () in its main loop. A DA was allowed to have a user-interface as long he has been confined to a main window. A special aspect window frame was reserved for the use of DAs so that the user was able to distinguish it from the windows of the application host.

DAs early typical included calculator and alarm clock. Third DAs such as correcting spelling has been purchased. It was considered hard to write a DA, especially at the outset when there was little in the way of tools director. However, since the early Mac OS drivers have been no special privilege, placing a DA was, with practice, more difficult than any other application.

The software is a general term used to describe a collection of software, procedures and documentation to perform certain tasks in a computer system. The term includes software for use as word processors that perform tasks for productive users, system software such as operating systems, which interconnect with hardware to provide the services necessary to use software, and middleware that controls and coordinates distributed systems.

Software is sometimes used in a broader context to mean anything that is not the hardware but is used with hardware, such as film, tapes and records.