Economies of scale in computing: Grosch's law revisited
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 30 (12), 1066-1072
- https://doi.org/10.1145/33447.33452
Abstract
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.Keywords
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