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1.2.4 The Personal Computer
In the same time frame came the personal computer. The appeal of the personal
computer in the context of corporate systems was that corporate data could be
stripped from the large mainframes holding applications, and it could be made
available to anyone having a personal computer. Indeed, many sorts of inter-
faces to the personal computer were beginning to spring up.
But it was noticed that merely throwing corporate data off to a personal
computer or off to a 4GL was no solution. Several problems were endemic to
the access and usage of corporate applications data, notably:
No integration. Each application captured, ...