Computer hardware performance: production and cost function analyses
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 32 (5) , 586-593
- https://doi.org/10.1145/63485.63489
Abstract
Based on microeconomics, computer hardware performance is analyzed using two methods. For the cost function analysis, both purchase and lease prices are used. The results show no economies of scale for the mainframes and superminis during the 1981-1985 period.Keywords
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