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Buying Computing by the Computon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the close-relative-of-the-bogon dept.

theodp writes "Seeking to emulate the pricing models utilities use to charge customers for kilowatt-hours of electricity based on the ebb and flow of power demand, HP Researchers have come up with a new unit-of-computing metric, the Computon, which is not to be confused with the 'Power Unit' and 'Service Unit' pricing metrics from Sun and IBM. California, here we come!"

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  1. Re:Compare with computron by dAzED1 · · Score: 0, Troll
    "computron" has been used since at least the mid-1980s, when I first heard it used by an MIT graduate.



    From Jargon File (4.0.0/24 July 1996) [jargon]:

    while people have found your post to be terribly informative, you might stop and notice the difference between "computon" and "computron." Any retort that the meaning has some degree of similarity will be met with the response that they both start with "compu," end with silimar roots, and will therefore both be related when assigned meaning anyway. I mean, you know.

    Thanks for the wonderful info about what computron means, though...