On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 09:23 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > I wonder if Moores' Law will be applied to the peripherals as well? > (Moore's Law: The processor power of computers will double from the > previous state every 18 months or so)
It looks to me like it's even faster for hard drives. Hasn't the "standard" size jumped from 20 GB to 60 GB in just the last year or so? I still have a stack of perfectly good 256 MB and 512 MB drives here that I know I'll never use again, but I can't convince myself to throw them away because they're perfectly good. By the way, here's Moore's Law according to Moore himself in 1997: <http://www.intel.com/update/archive/issue2/feature.htm> > I first observed the "doubling of transistor density on a manufactured > die every year" in 1965, just four years after the first planar > integrated circuit was discovered. The press called this "Moore's Law" > and the name has stuck. To be honest, I did not expect this law to > still be true some 30 years later, but I am now confident that it will > be true for another 20 years. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
