 | Chapter Objectives (See related pages)
At the end of this Learning Module, you should be able to:
Define information technology (IT) and its two basic categories—hardware and software. |
 |  |  | Describe categories of computers by size. |
 |  |  | Compare the roles of personal productivity, vertical market, and horizontal market software. |
 |  |  | Describe the roles of operating system and utility software as components of system software. |
 |  |  | Define the purposes of the six major categories of hardware. |
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