Personal computing vs. personal computers

✍ Scribed by John A. Lehman

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 642 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(85)90049-7

✦ Synopsis

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of personal computers in organizations focuses on a peripheral issue: the choice between distributed computer hardware and central computer hardware -between personal computers and mainframes. The real issue has nothing to do with personal computers or other hardware: it is the difference between organizational computing and personal computing in organizational information systems. This paper discusses the differences between organizational computing and personal computing, the connections between the organizational and the personal computing systems within organizations. and the role of MIS.