Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:48:27 -0700 | From | Miles Lane <> | Subject | Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken |
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Uz.ytkownik Martin Dalecki napisa?: <snip> > You don't read economic papers. Don't you? Or what is it with this > plumbing server/pc market around us? Or increased notebook sales. > (Typical marked saturation symptom, like the second car for the > familiy :-). > > I suggest it's precisely the end of the open invention curve out there: > > 1. Nowadays the CPUs are indeed good enough for most of the common tasks. > WindowsXP tries hard to help overcome this :-). But in reality Win2000 > is just fine for office work. > > 2. The technology in question is starting to hit real physical barriers becouse > it appears more and more that not everything comming out of the labs > can be implemented at reasonable costs.
Martin, perhaps you haven't seen this article. This news seems to contradict your assertion that cost is going to become a big problem as we attempt to continue tracking the price/performance trajectory of Moore's law.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-technology-chip.html
Miles
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