When the First Personal Computers Were Introduced,Bill Started Using a Spreadsheet

question 42

Multiple Choice

When the first personal computers were introduced,Bill started using a spreadsheet program to balance his checkbook.Bill discovered that this new method was much slower for him and that if he typed in the wrong data,it led to more mistakes.This illustrates how a(n) _____ technology may initially have lower performance than the _____ technology.

• A) incumbent, discontinuous
• B) logical extension, discontinuous
• C) discontinuous, incumbent
• D) discontinuous, modular

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Definitions:

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a standard for email transmission across the Internet.

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, a network management protocol used to automatically assign an IP address to devices on a network.

HTTP

The essential protocol for sending web pages across the internet, known as HyperText Transfer Protocol.

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol, a core protocol of the Internet Protocol Suite that provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of data.