On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:28, "John" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/12/2014 7:46 AM, CollinB wrote: >>> Yeah, that's it. The same sort of thing happened with PC's. Remember what >>> the first XT's cost? >>> >>> Alan C >> >> When I was selling Apple ][ plus computers, people would spend $2500+ on the >> system to run a $200 VisiCalc program. > > I remember John Dvorak writing in PC magazine that what Moore's Law > really meant was that while computing power would double every 18 months > or so, the computer you'd *want* would always cost $2500. >
Wirth's Law, which he attributes to Martin Reiser: "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster" B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
