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From: tpalm@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Tom Palm)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Windows and Productivity
Summary: Does buying workstations really save money?
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Date: 14 Sep 89 18:10:42 GMT
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Everybody knows that programmers using workstations with a
windows capability are more productive than programmers with
plain dumb ascii terminals. ;-) Right?  But how much more
productive?

Does anybody know of a research project/paper that can
"prove" it? 

If a company buys workstations with windowing capability
(X-Windows, etc) for is programmers, will it increase
their productivity, reduce the time to develope software,
decrease development costs and ultimately increase company
profits?  Can fewer programmers be hired if schedule is not
a problem? (yet :-)

For example, if a project will require 10 programmers using
ascii terminals on a centralized computer, could that same
project be done with, say 7 programmers if they had workstations
and a disk server?

tpalm@src.honeyell.com