Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 13:31:25 01/25/03
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On January 24, 2003 at 23:20:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snipped a huge amout, that should have been snipped looong ago so people don't have to scroll for half an our to read 5 lines] >>I think that they forgot the fact that the hardware is not twice faster every >>year and the progress in hardware is going to stop sometime in the future. >> >>300 Mhz were used in the end of 97 in the microcomputer world championship in >>paris (Today, more than 5 years later we do not have 300*32=9600Mhz. >> >>Uri > > >Moore's law is running on a roughly 18 month cycle. 1.5 years. 5 years == >three doublings. 8 * 300 is 2400, which is a bit behind, since we are at 3.0+ >today. Actually I believe Moore's law was about the number of transistors, and not about speed (common misconception). http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm -S.
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