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From: jhd@maths.bath.ac.uk (James Davenport)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: How do maxed out users compare to users with think times
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.175851.3644@maths.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Jun 91 17:58:51 GMT
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>>   This isn't my opinion, IBM did a very serious study of this issue back
>> in the late 70's, and since neither humans nor seconds have changed much
>> I bet it's still valid (and no I can't find it any more, we used it for
>> sizing for a while).
True indeed. The author of the study was Walt Docherty, IBM Yorktown Heights.
I believe it was published in IBM J. R&D.
James Davenport