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Question 1: What are the advantages and limitations of palmtop or handheld computers (including smartphones)? Do you have one? If so, for what do you use it? If not, what features would be particularly attractive to you?

Question 2: What are the advantages and limitations of a tablet PC? Do you believe tablet PCs will be successful? Why or why not? Do you see yourself using a tablet PC in a few years?

Question 3: With one firm (IBM) dominating the mainframe hardware market in the United States since its inception, and with that same firm currently near the top in every segment of the hardware industry (except microcomputers), has the computer hardware industry truly been competitive over the past five decades? Support your position.

Question 4: List possible uses of a supercomputer in a business setting.

Question 5: For most business information processing, what do you believe are the critical or limiting characteristics of today's computing systems-CPU speed, memory capacity, DASD capacity, internal communication speed, input-output speed, other factors, or some combination of these factors? Justify your answer.

Question 6: Which one category of personal productivity software is of most value to you now as a student? Why? Within this category, what is your favorite software package? Why? Do you think that the one category of personal productivity software of most value to you will change as you move into your career? Why?

Question 7: Based on what you have gleaned from the text, what primary advantages would a non-procedural 4 GL offer over the 3 GL that you know best? What disadvantages?