We've already been through the 'basics' in terms of three types of 'time' - that the computer user / purchaser / owner can use to be more efficient and effective.  Now here is more detail on those items:



Human Time:  - the time a human being (typically YOU!) invests in order to achieve a computing-task (database update / spreadsheet entry / writing, printing, mailing a letter, etc.




Computer Time: - the time the computer spends execting the command to achieve a desired goal (the goal is typically set-out by a human)




Network Time: - the time the network spends transmitting a file from one place to another.   Most files are sent on behalf of a human-entered command, but some are transferred based on software that runs on the computer - and may or may not have 'direct' human involvement.  In any case ALL files transferred over the network have a finite size and therefore consume a given amount of bandwidth on the network (be it a network in your house, a network in / within your company's 'campus' (perhaps all in one building or series of buildings - or even internationally with many overseas links?

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last updated:  11:17 a.m. on Friday, 19 January, 2007;   revID: 1a

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