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Technobabble: Moore, a co-founder of Intel Corp.The case has also been made the speed and capacity of personal computers doubles every 18 months, a variation of Moore’s Law. Though something of a generality, the trend has proven Moore’s Law to be quite accurate, and today there is more computing power in the average cell phone than there was in the somewhat massive computer that guided Apollo 11 to the moon in 1969.
Conversely, Gates’ Law, attributed to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, states that the speed of commercial software generally slows by 50 per cent every 18 months.
That is a variation of Wirth’s Law, which states that “Software is decelerating faster than hardware is accelerating.” This means that the frequency of software upgrades and version releases apparently slows down. Certainly, it seems to be true when observing the decelerating frequency of Microsoft Windows releases. M...
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