Re: Interractive Response Time

["Dare" <oludare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So Leif do you have a MAX avg or any avg?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: Interractive Response Time


> From: Dare <oludare@ix.netcom.com>
> > Is there an acceptable industry wide "Maximum Interractive Response
Time".
> Out here we are touting a 4sec as the maximum.
> >
>
> when people started doing timesharing in the early 60s, there were several
> studies of this. The result was that if the response time is more than 2
> seconds
> productivity begins to hurt. But more important than the raw response time
> was that the response time was constant, thus response times of 1, 1, 5,
1,
> 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1 with a mean of 1.7 seconds was worse than 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
2,
> 2, 2, 2, 2 with a mean of 2.0 seconds, although the latter was slower on
> average. A consistent response time that does not vary much is best.
>
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