Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Instruction-Set Architecture Standardization for Military Computer Systems

1 April 1979

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Computer

Vol. 12 (4) , 35-47
https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.1979.1658693

Abstract

Standardizing on a single efficient computer architecture can save the military billions of dollars over the next couple decades. The challenge is finding that single best candidate. An econometric model shows how.

Keywords

MILITARY COMPUTING
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
STANDARDIZATION
MILITARY STANDARDS
COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION
HARDWARE
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
PREDICTIVE MODELS

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Evaluation of the software bases of the candidate architectures for the military computer family
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ,1977
Life cycle cost models for comparing computer family architectures
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ,1977