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gunthnp

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will it bad or good for the computer industry if we got rid of moores law

with out moores law will we see computer going in to thing we know will be around in a while
most think can not be replace in three years to keepup with moores law so if we did not have this fast past what other thing would get a computer in it

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what else has died off like that
on my commandor 64 I had vioce contorl for my home that was back in the 80's and any one rember the optical cube

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There was a lot of good stuff going on then, however they were killed off by the IBM compatible PC which was rising in popularity due to it;s taking up by the business community.
The PC back then was really a very poor machine (crap graphics, no sound, no games, no nothing).
One good machine that lost out was the Amiga - I never owned one, but I heard so many good things about it.
 
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The Amiga was a wonderful machine in its day. I still have my early model Amiga 1000 (one of the first sold in the UK) sitting about 4 feet away from me.
 
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does anyone know why Amiga just didn't make it? I'm curious because it seems everybody liked it. Why didn't it catch on?

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there still around in a way they make os for pda's and enbed porgram lang like java and stil have a OS and PC to sell but what got them where think they are dead was the "PC wars of the eraly 90's" that when every one lost wintel
atari rip
amgia rip
tandy rip
cyrix rip
and apple went in to a comma till the Imac saved there butts


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Pity it all flopped really - we might have ended up with the elegant CPU (68x00) rather than the 80x86.
 
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Quite so - although the article referenced provides a relatively upbeat summary of events.
 
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'Bucky Balls', 'nanotubes' call them what you will, seems to be touted these days as the cure for all our technological ills.
They do remind me of the quack medicines of the Victorian era.

 
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<<will it bad or good for the computer industry if we got rid of moores law>>

Moore's Law is just another instance of the technology curve which seems to imply that changes are happening faster and faster. I personally wouldn't mind if things slowed down a little but I'm not going to count on that.

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt - Freelance ASP Web Developer
- Creating &quot;dynamic&quot; Web pages that read and write from databases...
 
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The space 'brick wall' isn't the only issue. True, we think we can only pack in so many transistors on silicon, but who knows what we'll discover. Another issue is that by the time we get to 20GHz processors, the electrical OR optical signal (and this is assuming the speed of light in a vacuum) can only travel about 15mm per clock cycle. This strikes me as a more fundamental limiting factor which will push us towards parallel optical processing with different wavelength processes co-existing on single optical chips to deliver speed rather than ever faster serial processing.
 
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