How can we have "Happy Computing!", when amount of memory, speed, and chip
density will no longer double every eighteen months?
With Moore gone, who will enforce his law?
Hardware will no longer be able to keep pace with software, particularly
Windoze, whose requirements continue to double. Unlike Boyle's Law,
software over-expands, to overfill all available space.
Calling Moore's prediction a "law" was whimsical humor., like "Murphy's
Law". It is an observation. But, systems programmers treated it as a
guideline, and specification, so that every eighteen months, the operating
system would have to require twice as much resources. And, the hardware
builders came to rely on that. How do you force people to replace a
perfectly good working computer with a new model of Dell, unless you
DISCONTINUE the operating system, and replace it with one with new and
additional resource requirements?
All Intel based products should go dark for one clock cycle. (unlike
Nixon's death, where we had eighteen and a half minutes of silence)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected]
On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Legendary discoverer of Moore's Law Gordon Moore passed away. Whether it
truly is a 'law' is debatable but its effect on microprocessor development
is hard to deny. Our industry/hobby or interest was built on a technology
G. Moore helped to develop.
Happy computing!
Murray 🙂
