On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 2:01 PM Dave Wade via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > Did anyone ever use process accounting? Did they actually bill departments > (funny money)?
Starting in the 60's, many centralized academic computing centers (mine included) operated on a cost-recovery basis and had accounting groups (people) and processes to bill back departments for usage. It was funny money for some chargebacks (e.g. student allocations) but it also involved very-real funds when external grants were used to pay for resources. Most of this disappeared starting in the 90's when departmental computers became possible.
