Process accounting - did anyone ever use it?

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:30:51AM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: When I was an undergrad at Drake University the 'academic' VAX, running VMS 6.mumble, would spit out a monthly accounting report on the DEC laser printer we had attached to the thing. One of my many jobs was working the counter where the printer was at, and I was often amused by how many thousands of dollars I had spent in CPU time that month. I don't think they did anything with it - if so, my student loans would have been way way worse than they were - and suspect it was set up when the thing was originally an 11/750 and carried through the 4000-600 it was when I was using it and when they shut it off (incidentially, it's now sitting in my apartment). I think the only real use for the report was to provide a baseline printer paper order each month.... -- Thomas L. Kula | kula at tproa.net | https://kula.tproa.net/