POS 355 Week 3

Individual Assignment: PC/Mainframe Paper

Write a 3-5 page paper in APA format comparing and contrasting PCs and mainframes. It will be necessary to research this topic outside your course readings.

Learning Team Assignment: Learning Team Project (Due Week Five)

Continue work on the Operating System Analysis.

o Outline the important features of Windows 2003.

Discussion Questions

Based on Eleraths (2009) article, what are the two main categories of hard disk drive failure? How does SMART technology work and what does it mean when limits are exceeded?

Based on Thibodeaus (2008) article, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the use of mainframes?

Find a recent article about the use of mainframes in today's IT world, review it for the class and include the link to the article.