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." ;-) > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------