tpalm@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Tom Palm) (09/15/89)
Everybody knows that programmers using workstations with a windows capability are more productive than programmers with plain dumb ascii terminals. ;-) Right? But how much more productive? Does anybody know of a research project/paper that can "prove" it? If a company buys workstations with windowing capability (X-Windows, etc) for is programmers, will it increase their productivity, reduce the time to develope software, decrease development costs and ultimately increase company profits? Can fewer programmers be hired if schedule is not a problem? (yet :-) For example, if a project will require 10 programmers using ascii terminals on a centralized computer, could that same project be done with, say 7 programmers if they had workstations and a disk server? tpalm@src.honeyell.com