The Management Information System is Going to Pieces

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Schwab Bernhard , “The Economics of Sharing Computers,” Harvard Business Review (September-October 1968), pp. 62–63.

McClure Robert M. , “Trade-off Between Software and Machine Size,” Sixteenth Annual EDP Conference, American Management Association (February 24, 1970), p. 5.

Littrell R. F. , “The Costs of Computer Systems: Part I: Economies of Scale in Hardware Systems for Commercial and Scientific Computing,” (Raleigh, North Carolina, unpublished).

Ibid., p. 2.

Bell C. Gordon Chen Robert Rege Satish , “Effect of Technology on Near Term Computer Structures,” Computer (March-April 1972), pp. 31–32.

Dearden , op. cit., pp. 95–96.

Oswald Henry , “Maxi-empire, No! Mini-empire, Maybe?” Infosystems (June 1972).

Gruenberger Fred Babcock David , “Speaking of Minis,” Datamation (July 1973), p. 58.

Parke Nathan Grier III , “Increasing Popularity of Modular Design,” American Management Association, Briefing Session Number 6377-01.

Parke , op. cit., p. 4.

Newport Christopher B. , “Maturing Mini-Computers,” Honeywell Computer Journal, pp. 30–35.

Canning Richard G. , “In Your Future: Distributed Systems,” EDP Analyzer (August 1973), p. 9.

Bran Roy , “Researchers Pioneer Application Advances with Minis,” Infosystems (October 1973), pp. 45–46.

Canning , op. cit., p. 2.

Emery James C. , “Problems and Promises of Regional Computing,” Datamation (August 1973), pp. 56–57.

Riley Wallace B. , “Minicomputer Networks—A Challenge to Maxicomputers?” Electronics Magazine (March 29, 1971), p. 60.

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