Abstract
Since the introduction of personal computers (PCs) by IBM in 1981, their use has literally exploded into the commercial world. Prior to the advent of the PC, computers were either main-frame, costing thousands of pounds and taking up a lot of space, or mini word-processors the size of several filing cabinets, and also very expensive. As both the speed of processing data and the memory capacity of PCs have increased over the years, so the general applications software that they run has become more versatile and able to satisfy a wider market.
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Day, D.W.J. (1994). Information Technology. In: Project Management and Control. Macmillan Building and Surveying Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12097-0_10
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