PC vs. Mainframe

  • 발행 : 1989.10.01

초록

This paper addresses the "PC vs. mainframe" issue by systematically evaluating the usefulness of PCs in an educational context. For this purpose the satisfaction of 47 undergraduate students working with a software package that is available on both PCs and the mainframe was measured and analyzed. The results of the analysis of variance show no interaction effects between computing context and computing experience. Users were more satisfied with PC LINDO than with its mainframe counterpart. Also experienced users showed significantly higher satisfaction than inexperienced users in this study.his study.

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