The History of DebitCredit and the TPC.
Omri Serlin · 1991
This is a personal account of how the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) came into being and how it created TPC Benchmark(tm) A and B (commonly abbreviated TPCA, TPC-B). I also describe how these tests differ from each other, and from the DebitCredit and TP1 tests, their popular but non-standardized predecessors. Finally, I offer an assessment of the value of the standards developed by the TPC, and how they compare with standards developed by other recently-formed performance measurement standards bodies, most notably SPEC (System Performance Evaluation Cooperative).