February 1985 - Vol. 28 No. 2
Features
Grosch’s law re-revisited: CPU power and the cost of computation
Does Grosch's law, which postulated that the costs of computer systems increase at a rate equivalent to the square root of their power, still hold? The age of mini-,…
Rating the major computing periodicals on readability
The readability of the ten major computing periodicals is analyzed using the Flesch Reading Ease Index.
From programming language design to computer construction
From NELIAC (via ALGOL 60) to Euler and ALGOL W, to Pascal and Modula-2, and ultimately Lilith, Wirth's search for an appropriate formalism for systems programming yields…
User-oriented criteria for the selection of DSS software
Both the composition of the selection team and the choice of evaluation criteria should reflect the end-user orientation of DSS software.
Programmer perceptions of productivity and programming tools
Psychometric scaling methods are applied to programmer productivity assessments of 20 tools to recommend a set of minimal, as well as more comprehensive, tools.
A specification language to assist in analysis of discrete event simulation models
Effective development environments for discrete event simulation models should reduce development costs and improve model performance. A model specification language used…
Amortized efficiency of list update and paging rules
In this article we study the amortized efficiency of the “move-to-front” and similar rules for dynamically maintaining a linear list. Under the assumption…