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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (26007)	11/16/1997 8:44:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1582681

Ali; They say when they make a foolproof mechanism, along comes a better fool. Human nature will lead some to want the fastest/best. That cutting edge group pays dearly for that privilege,in bugs and money. The software people have a vested interst in bloat, and now the machine people must make the machine run it. None of them want a stable non expansionary universe, as for the that would lead to collapse. Moore law will keep going for at least ten more years as they are just starting the use of stacked chips, and that can increase by a ten factor the capacity of systems, and along with die shrink keep moore alive and well until 2010, or therabouts.Of course that law was a random walk about either side of the line. But eventually it must fail as at some time we will run out of speed and area, and we are reaching the lower limit on die shrink which has driven moores law for a long time. A friend of mine has the fastest and best, SCSI wide, Pentium II,21" monitor. All for word processing. He does stretch it a bit with dictation programs, and currently like the new IBM one, but as you say largely wasted. The drive to low price is looking for new sales, as is the net PC. Bill