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Article #22231Re: Moore's Law
From: nelson
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 01:31
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 01:31
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Something here seems a bit flaky... If, in fact, that doubling every 10 months rule holds back to 1960, and we assume that there was only ONE transistor then, we have 20 trans. for every person on Earth. Now, if we say that there was only ONE Burroughs 5000 (introduced in 1960), then it follows that each person has the equivalent of 20 of those machines. This is still not reasonable, though. I think a figure of about TEN MILLION transistors in 1960 is reasonable. That equates to 200 million per person on Earth now, and that seems much too large...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!nelson From: nelson@m.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Moore's Law Message-ID: <3300099@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Feb 90 01:31:07 GMT References: <51751@bu.edu.bu.edu> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:bu.edu.bu.edu:51751:m.cs.uiuc.edu:3300099:000:572 Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!nelson Feb 7 14:39:00 1990