An approach to job pricing in a multi-programming environment
Charles B. Kreitzberg, Jesse H. Webb · 1972
Computers are amazingly fast, amazingly accurate, and amazingly expensive. This last attribute, expense, is one which must be considered by those who would utilize the speed and accuracy of computers. In order to equitably distribute the expense of computing among the various users, it is essential that the computer installation management be able to accurately assess the costs of processing a specific job. Knowing job costs is also important for efficiency studies, hardware planning, and workload evaluation as well as for billing purposes.