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On the performance of COBOL programs in large vs. mini computers
Author(s) -
Jalics Paul J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380120202
Subject(s) - cobol , minicomputer , computer science , ibm , programming language , set (abstract data type) , benchmark (surveying) , software engineering , computation , operating system , materials science , geodesy , geography , nanotechnology
The comparative performance characteristics of COBOL programs in a small versus large computer systems are investigated. The vehicle consists of a set of synthetic benchmark COBOL programs, each measuring a particular aspect of COBOL computations, data manipulation, and input/output is made on both a large scale computer (IBM 370/158) and a minicomputer (Texas Instruments TI980). Results of a number of such experiments are presented and comparisons made between results obtained from the two systems.