A carefully designed home office network can provide a secure connection to a common private network and the Internet. ... The three phases in setting up a home network are: design, installation, and administration. In phase I, the design, system requirements are determined based on the applications and the required speed of the network. ... Phase 1- Design The home user must first define what types of systems are necessary to perform their job functions. ... For the example installation, the computer system will be configured to support word-processing applications and some graphic 2D &...

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For example, the Apple computer company, was the leader in the development of graphical user interface operating systems, and it has held a significant market share in the graphical design industry. On the other hand, Microsoft, now the world's biggest personal software and IT service firm, was developing its own version of a graphic based operating system. The Microsoft operating system, Disk Operating System (DOS), was designed for IBM compatible systems to run simple applications such as word processing and simple spread sheets. ...

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