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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via
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Sent: 30 May 2019 18:31
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Subject: Process accounting - did anyone ever use it?
(Credit the Quotas thread for prompting this.)
Did anyone ever use process accounting? Did they actually bill departments
(funny money)?
I was always intrigued by process accounting, but never had a use for it
myself.
I guess I can thank process accounting for causing the discrepancy that Cliff
Stole tracked down that became The Cuckoo's Egg. :-)
When I worked at Refuge Assurance in Manchester, England we used process accounting on our
Honeywell L66 under GCOS 3.
I don't think we really did detailed charging, but we used the accounting records to
divide up the cost of running the machine among the departments.
I wrote the accounting routing .MBORT7 I think which was a small assembler routine that
ran at the end of every job.
It printed out the charges for store , disk and CPU and wrote to a journal....
I remember years after I left my wife, who worked in the company secretarial department,
which is generally called governance these days, brought a print[out home detailing some
shareholdings.
After she had complained how useless the figures were, she then asked what the extra
figures were on the bottom of the page.
I explained it was a bit of code I wrote, that worked out the cost of the job!. She said
as it was useless she was going to ask for a credit...
... I don't remember if she got one....
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Grant. . . .
unix || die
Dave
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