Daly: Good Morning. Surprisingly many important decisions regarding expensive computer equipment and manpower are still made today with little more than guesswork. Systems evaluations and comparisons, efficiency measurements of programs and proficiency judgments of programmers are often handled with the very manual--paper and pencil methods that computers are purchased or rented to avoid. Computer capabilities have broadened and as multiprogramming, multiprocessing and remote computing have become a reality, the situation gets worse and worse.
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