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mr.Curmudgeon:
http://www.technologyreview.com/article/21886/

From 1 to 758 million transistors in 50 years.    :o

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 06, 2009, 02:34:55 pm ---Shame they don't run any faster.

--- End quote ---

It's the software, not the hardware. All that eye candy, background management, and hardware abstraction chew up a lot of resources.

Samstag:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 06, 2009, 03:10:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 06, 2009, 02:34:55 pm ---Shame they don't run any faster.

--- End quote ---

It's the software, not the hardware. All that eye candy, background management, and hardware abstraction chew up a lot of resources.

--- End quote ---

In my line of work we have systems run by 25-year old computers next to systems running on bleeding edge multi-core multi-processor hardware.  In my experience the older the computer, the faster it will boot.  Unless it runs linux.

ahofle:
There should be a corollary to Moore's law showing that any advances in hardware will be completely overrun by software 'advances' for a net performance gain of 0.  :P

mr.Curmudgeon:
Doh!

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