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Comments on "Grosch's law re-revisited: CPU power and the cost of computation"

By Young Moo Kang, Robert B. Miller, Roger Alan Pick
Communications of the ACM, August 1986, Vol. 29 No. 8, Pages 779-781
10.1145/6424.6441
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Taking Ein-Dor's recent reevaluation of Grosch's law one step further, the authors find evidence of different slopes for different classes of computers and the utility of an additional variable: the IBM or IBM-compatible factor. The analysis indicates that Grosch's law no longer applies to minicomputers.

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