Position & proposal

[Chris Bitmead uid]

>Perhaps it's simply philosophical, but I believe that any computer
>resource is inherently cheaper than 1 second of a user/programmer's
>time.

Not if that resource happens to be a Cray YMP.

>Hence 1 user = 1+ cpu and all resources. Once you begin timesharing, you
>create artifical scarcity (artificial in the sense that it's
>unnecessary)

Only artificial if you consider everyone who needs a Cray should have
their own.