On May 29, 2009, at 2:59 PM, raghu wrote:
Or to give a more prosaic example: Moore's Law. CPUs become faster and
smaller over time. At some point, this trend may plateau out. But
there is no going back. Once we have learnt how to make smaller and
faster chips, there is no reason ever to go back to old technologies.
The new chips are better in a very specific sense: they can do
everything the old chips can and more..
That may not be a good example... remember the RISC craze of the
late-80s, early-90s. After all, Moore's Law is not a real law.
--ravi
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