Economies of scale in computing: Grosch's law revisited

Communications of the ACM - Tập 30 Số 12 - Trang 1066-1072 - 1987
Haim Mendelson1
1Univ of Rochester, Rochester, NY

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Does Grosch's law apply in the 1980s? A look at the price and performance of computer systems concludes that there are no economies of scale in computing. Computer technology is characterized by constant returns to scale, a fact that has important implications on future centralization/decentralization decisions.

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