Computer capacity utilisation - a multilevel perspective on decades of decline

This article uses a multilevel perspective to explain why there has been a dramatic decline in the utilisation of computer-processing power during the last two to three decades. It identifies that computers have been used in two different ways - either as single-user systems where each users receive...

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Veröffentlicht in:Technology analysis & strategic management Jg. 27; H. 5; S. 517 - 531
1. Verfasser: Fevolden, Arne Martin
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Veröffentlicht: Abingdon Routledge 28.05.2015
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capacity utilisation
Computer industry
Computers
Data processing
End users
Energy consumption
Mainframe
Microcomputers
Minicomputers
Multidimensional analysis
Multilevel
multilevel perspective
Operating systems
Personal computers
Power
Production capacity
Strategic management
Studies
systems architecture
Technology assessment
Timesharing
Utilities
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Abstract This article uses a multilevel perspective to explain why there has been a dramatic decline in the utilisation of computer-processing power during the last two to three decades. It identifies that computers have been used in two different ways - either as single-user systems where each users received his or her own computer or as time-sharing systems where each computer was shared by several users. It finds that the time-sharing systems made considerably better use of the computers' resources than the single-user systems and that the utilisation of computer-processing power began to decline as single-user microcomputers began to replace time-shared minicomputers and mainframes. The article argues that this development contradicts much of the recent research on capacity utilisation, but argues that this contradiction can be explained by analysing this development as a transition process with multiple levels of interaction.
AbstractList This article uses a multilevel perspective to explain why there has been a dramatic decline in the utilisation of computer-processing power during the last two to three decades. It identifies that computers have been used in two different ways -- either as single-user systems where each users received his or her own computer or as time-sharing systems where each computer was shared by several users. It finds that the time-sharing systems made considerably better use of the computers' resources than the single-user systems and that the utilisation of computer-processing power began to decline as single-user microcomputers began to replace time-shared minicomputers and mainframes. The article argues that this development contradicts much of the recent research on capacity utilisation, but argues that this contradiction can be explained by analysing this development as a transition process with multiple levels of interaction.
This article uses a multilevel perspective to explain why there has been a dramatic decline in the utilisation of computer-processing power during the last two to three decades. It identifies that computers have been used in two different ways - either as single-user systems where each users received his or her own computer or as time-sharing systems where each computer was shared by several users. It finds that the time-sharing systems made considerably better use of the computers' resources than the single-user systems and that the utilisation of computer-processing power began to decline as single-user microcomputers began to replace time-shared minicomputers and mainframes. The article argues that this development contradicts much of the recent research on capacity utilisation, but argues that this contradiction can be explained by analysing this development as a transition process with multiple levels of interaction. Reprinted by permission of Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Ltd.
This article uses a multilevel perspective to explain why there has been a dramatic decline in the utilisation of computer-processing power during the last two to three decades. It identifies that computers have been used in two different ways - either as single-user systems where each users received his or her own computer or as time-sharing systems where each computer was shared by several users. It finds that the time-sharing systems made considerably better use of the computers' resources than the single-user systems and that the utilisation of computer-processing power began to decline as single-user microcomputers began to replace time-shared minicomputers and mainframes. The article argues that this development contradicts much of the recent research on capacity utilisation, but argues that this contradiction can be explained by analysing this development as a transition process with multiple levels of interaction.
Author Fevolden, Arne Martin
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Computer industry
Computers
Data processing
End users
Energy consumption
Mainframe
Microcomputers
Minicomputers
Multidimensional analysis
Multilevel
multilevel perspective
Operating systems
Personal computers
Power
Production capacity
Strategic management
Studies
systems architecture
Technology assessment
Timesharing
Utilities
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