Computer-based systems / John Race

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Kentucky : Hodder and Stoughton, c1983Description: xvi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 679105131
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA 76 .R33 1983
Contents:
1. The purpose of this book -- 2. System, system analyst, programmers, operation staff, and the computer -- 3. Computer-based systems categorized by speed of response. slow response systems -- 4. Medium-response computer-based systems -- 5. Rapid-response computer-based systems -- 6. Trends: databases, CAD, Minis and micros, ultra-fast systems, systems in the home -- 7. Wider issues: ethics, metaphysics and what the reader should do about computers.
Summary: This book is not the place to embark on philosophy or sociology, but as we look at the various systems we should perhaps ask ourselves what the implications are.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex Relegation Room Computer Science GC QA 76 .R33 1983 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000002384

Includes index.

1. The purpose of this book -- 2. System, system analyst, programmers, operation staff, and the computer -- 3. Computer-based systems categorized by speed of response. slow response systems -- 4. Medium-response computer-based systems -- 5. Rapid-response computer-based systems -- 6. Trends: databases, CAD, Minis and micros, ultra-fast systems, systems in the home -- 7. Wider issues: ethics, metaphysics and what the reader should do about computers.

This book is not the place to embark on philosophy or sociology, but as we look at the various systems we should perhaps ask ourselves what the implications are.

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