30 Dec
2017
30 Dec
'17
5:53 p.m.
On Dec 30, 2017, at 5:55 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
"Moore's Law", which was a prediction, not a "LAW", has often
been mis-stated as predicting a doubling of speed/capacity every 18 months.
True, but that applies also to any "law of nature". They are not rules, as
political laws are; instead they are (a) a compact statement of what has been observed and
(b) a prediction of what will be observed in the future. They are always subject to
revision if contradicted by evidence, as Newton's law of gravitation was.
paul