Presented in this paper is a technique for determining the relative effects of the internal speed of the computer and the speed of the input-output units upon the overall speed of the system. Equations are derived which permit the determination of these effects from hardware usage measurements.
Relative effects of central processor and input-output speeds upon throughput on the large computer
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