Price/performance patterns of U. S. computer systems
- 1 April 1979
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 22 (4) , 225-233
- https://doi.org/10.1145/359094.359097
Abstract
Econometric models of the U.S. computer market have been developed to study the relationships between system price and hardware performance. Single measures of price/performance such as “Grosch's Law” are shown to be so oversimplified as to be meaningless. Multiple-regression models predicting system cost as a function of several hardware characteristics do, however, reveal a market dichotomy. On one hand there exists a stable, price predictable market for larger, general purpose computer systems. The other market is the developing one for small business computer systems, a market which is relatively unstable with low price predictability.Keywords
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