Excerpt from Federal Information Processing Standards Publication: Guidelines for Benchmarking Adp Systems in the Competitive Procurement Environment; May 15, 1977 The Federal Information Processing Standards Publication Series of the National Bureau of Standards (nbs) is the official publication series relating to Federal standards and guidelines adopted and promulgated under the provisions of Public Law 89 - 306 (brooks Act) and under Part 6 of Title 15, Code of Federal Regulations. Under pl. 89-306, the Secretary of Commerce has important responsibilities for improving the utili zation and effectiveness of computer systems in the Federal Government. In order to carry out the Secretary's responsibilities, the nbs, through its Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, provides leadership, technical guidance, and coordination of Government efforts in the development of technical guidelines and standards in these areas. Workload definition and benchmarking for the competitive procurement of Federal computer systems has proved to be a very costly process for both the computer user and the computer vendor. For some types of systems, such as those supporting large numbers of interactive terminals, current benchmark procedures have technical shortcomings in addition to their high costs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.