-=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........

  • From: "don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:17:16 -0400

Here is the WikiPedia explanation of Moore's Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law


Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:46 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........


> It is just more of the M$ treadmill:  M$ develops and releases a new,
> bloated, inadequately-tested OS that has vastly-increased system
> requirements (OS footprint on hard drive and memory requirements).  System
> builders (e.g., Gateway, Dell, etc.) release "budget" systems with RAM
> adequate to boot the system, but with insufficient to perform tasks "in 
> the
> real world."  After loading new apps often required by the upgraded OS,
> endusers then complain that the systems are slow, barely faster than the
> systems that they replaced.  In effect, hard drives get bigger and CPUs 
> get
> faster, but OSes and apps also grow in size and system requirements almost
> as quickly (if not more-so).  The net result?  Not so much of an
> improvement.  (Admittedly, the manufacturers are partly to blame for 
> selling
> inadequately-powered systems for the new version of the OSes, but M$ bears
> part of the blame for bloatware and also vastly understating the "real
> world" requirements of their products (OSes, Office Suites, etc.).)
>
> If you doubt what I'm saying, think about the "footprint" of Dos, Windows
> 3.x, Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K (1 GB of footprint and 256 Megs of RAM 
> (Real
> World: 512 Megs to 1 GB), WinXP (2 GB of footprint and 512 MB of RAM (Real
> World: 1 to 2 GBs of RAM) and Vista (8 to 16 GB of footprint (depending on
> version) and 2 GB of RAM (Real World: 4 GB of RAM).... One might think of
> Window's growth as the "flip side" (or a corollary) of "Moore's Law."  ;-)
>


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