Buisness Appendix E

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Appendix E

Hardware/Software Components

In your own words, describe the following hardware/software components

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|Legacy systems |A legacy system is a system that is outdated but still does the job it needs to do. |

| |There may be better procedures to do the job but to save costs on training and buying |

| |new products a company may choose to stick with what they have. An example would be |

| |using Microsoft Excel 97 instead of upgrading to Microsoft 2007. |

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|Mainframe computers |Mainframes are computers used by large organizations to handle large amounts of data. |

| |It is likely the Census currently being done in our country will use a Mainframe |

| |Computer to handle the vast amount of information to give us a better idea of the |

| |demographics of the country. |

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|Microprocessors |A microprocessor (a little chip inside your computer) gets all the computer software |

| |in your computer to work together. It is what tells the computer to come on when you |

| |hit the on button and it tells the computer after...