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Neil Hodgson neilh at scintilla.org
Wed May 3 19:30:40 EDT 2000 
> Add to that his claim that "technology doubles ever year" is also
incorrect.
> To be more specific, Moore's law states that the performance of
> microprocessor systems double every 18 months (not every year), and refers
> *strictly* to hardware.  It does *NOT* apply to software.  Want proof?
> Windows.

   It surely does. The amount of code in Windows increases with every
release. My new copy of Windows 2000 feels about twice as 'heavy' as last
years model. It wouldn't fit on the old partition.

   Neil
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