On Friday, October 22, 2004, Byron and Geoff each wrote:
"The number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits will double approximately every 18 months for the foreseeable future." -Moore's Law (as restated by Gordon Moore in the 1980's)
I have created a modified version of this theory that I call Strickler's
corollary:
"The amount of memory required for a computer workstation doubles every two
years."
-Geoff Strickler, 2003
So Moore's prediction was on the mark when put in the context of memory.
Didn't someone write (and if they didn't someone should have) a corollary, to the effect that the amount of memory required to run a program doubles every x number of years? AKA Bloatware or 'feeping creatures'?
Jim Rohde
From The Jargon-Lexicon: - - - feeping creature n.
[from feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
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