[cctalk] Re: Death of G. Moore

How can we have "Happy Computing!", when amount of memory, speed, and chip density will no longer double every eighteen months? With Moore gone, who will enforce his law? Hardware will no longer be able to keep pace with software, particularly Windoze, whose requirements continue to double. Unlike Boyle's Law, software over-expands, to overfill all available space. Calling Moore's prediction a "law" was whimsical humor., like "Murphy's Law". It is an observation. But, systems programmers treated it as a guideline, and specification, so that every eighteen months, the operating system would have to require twice as much resources. And, the hardware builders came to rely on that. How do you force people to replace a perfectly good working computer with a new model of Dell, unless you DISCONTINUE the operating system, and replace it with one with new and additional resource requirements? All Intel based products should go dark for one clock cycle. (unlike Nixon's death, where we had eighteen and a half minutes of silence) -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > Legendary discoverer of Moore's Law Gordon Moore passed away. Whether it > truly is a 'law' is debatable but its effect on microprocessor development > is hard to deny. Our industry/hobby or interest was built on a technology > G. Moore helped to develop. > > Happy computing! > > Murray 🙂