
Students' Guide to
Business
Computing
microcomputers, who would not have touched a computer in the
past. Microcomputers are usually paid for by departments, rather
than from a central budget, but most large companies have policies
about what makes of hardware and which computer packages may be
bought, in order to achieve some reasonable degree of
standardization.
The hardware configuration shown in Figure 2.6 is reasonably
typical of what one might expect to see in a large business. There are
certain key applications that would need to be run on a large central
computer, such as accounting, payroll and so on. Such applications
will involve