Paua or pÄua is the MÄori name given to a small group of monovalve molluscs endemic to New Zealand coastal waters. They belong to the family Haliotidae (genus Haliotis) of which there are approximately 130 species, usually known in the Northern Hemisphere as abalone.
To the organization that sets up the portal, it is a system that provides versatile functions for the organization to catalogue or organize collections of different and multiple sources of information and service resources for dissemination to many users according to their specific privileges, needs and interest.
System software allows the computer to work and acts as an interface between the computer and the user. It handles such things as the display graphics, time and date, keyboardâ¦ and mouse control, opening and closing programs but does little else. An example would be 'Microsoft Windows Vista'. Or Mac OS 8.