Larry Price wrote:
> On First Night, [...]
What is First Night? Did I miss a Eugene thing?
> Also why Moore's law does __NOT__ apply to software.
Are you sure? Moore's law, as originally stated, is that the number
of gates on a chip doubles every 18 months. It looks to me like the
number of {lines of code, function points, bytes of memory used,
whatever} is increasing at a similar rate.
My personal belief is that the "natural size" of software is much
bigger than current machines will support, and that we software
writers are happily gobbling up all the hardware advances we can get,
and are nowhere near sated. There are zillions of things that
computers could do if they were a lot faster and smarter.
> positively ancient PC's and consoles (mostly mid '80's)
Careful. Statements like that will invoke the Curmugeon Contingent.
But Anne and I will check out the exhibit, thanks.
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Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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