The exact wording from the show: "In 1965 this American engineer first 
enunciated his famed "law", predicting computing power would double every year"

Looking it up just now, he apparently predicted a doubling every year in his 
original 1965 article, and then in 1975 he revised the prediction to "will 
double every two years."


> On Nov 6, 2021, at 12:17 AM, Steve VanDevender 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> danny burstein writes:
>> I forget the category, but the clue was something like:
>> 
>> "This man's statement, now called ____'s law,
>> was that computers would double in speed
>> every year"
>> 
>> The respnse was, of course:
>> 
>> "Who is ... (rot-13) Zbber"
>> 
>> But his observation was... that this would
>> happen... every TWO years.
> 
> Moore's law is that the number of transistors on integrated circuits
> doubles about every two years, and not about the speed of computers.
> 
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