<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12144>

>BILL GATES SAID in his chat to Etre attendees yesterday evening that it's
>pretty clear that hardware drives the software industry.
>
>That goes some way to solving the essential conundrum that has baffled man
>since the beginning of time, well, since the beginning of PCs anyway.The
>ability of chip designers and other hardware engineers to produce yet more
>power and capacities was what spurred the software industry.
>
> While he admits that Moore's Law could be in trouble, it's not in trouble
>yet, said Gates. He said that it will work for the rest of the decade.
>
> "Every year, people double the size of their hard disk", Gates said. But,
>he said, some of the changes that will come in the next 10 years are
>qualitative rather than based on pure numerical changes.

Now we know the real reason why Longhorn will be so late in shipping... the
hardware has got a long way to go to catch up in order to be able to run it
at a comparable "speed" to XP...

-- 
COMPUTER POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DOWN WITH CYBERCRUD!

Mr. paul cooke drawled,

> Now we know the real reason why Longhorn will be so late in shipping... the
> hardware has got a long way to go to catch up in order to be able to run it
> at a comparable "speed" to XP...

in the meantime 2.6 will be shipped EOY 2003
making all of that unnecessary.




-- 
http://www.museum.tv/ETV/G/htmlG/greenacres/greenacres.htm

Datagram from paul cooke incoming on netlink socket
<1917889.xXF5guhLxl@cooke-main-box.madhouse>. Dumping datagram.
> 
> Now we know the real reason why Longhorn will be so late in shipping... the
> hardware has got a long way to go to catch up in order to be able to run it
> at a comparable "speed" to XP...

The inventions that keep up moore's law are made a good time before they become
necressary to sustain it.

This is the analogous situation with Gates' law... 

-Ilari
-- 
You have chosen poorly. Now you suffer the consequences of your bad 
decisions. -- Ilari Liusvaara
Linux LK_Perkele_IV9 2.4.22-rc3 #2 Sun Aug 24 14:36:19 EEST 2003 i686 unknown
  8:28pm  up 33 days,  8:23,  11 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.04

paul cooke wrote:
> 
> <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12144>
> 
> >BILL GATES SAID in his chat to Etre attendees yesterday evening that it's
> >pretty clear that hardware drives the software industry.
> >
> >That goes some way to solving the essential conundrum that has baffled man
> >since the beginning of time, well, since the beginning of PCs anyway.The
> >ability of chip designers and other hardware engineers to produce yet more
> >power and capacities was what spurred the software industry.
> >
> > While he admits that Moore's Law could be in trouble, it's not in trouble
> >yet, said Gates. He said that it will work for the rest of the decade.
> >
> > "Every year, people double the size of their hard disk", Gates said. But,
> >he said, some of the changes that will come in the next 10 years are
> >qualitative rather than based on pure numerical changes.
> 
> Now we know the real reason why Longhorn will be so late in shipping... the
> hardware has got a long way to go to catch up in order to be able to run it
> at a comparable "speed" to XP...

Hehehehe... more bloatware coming.  I wonder how many empty
loops are needed to slow down an o/s anyway?