IBM mainframe goes for 99 cents

[David H. Barr]

Moore's Observation refers ONLY to the number of on-die transistors,
does it not? So while this happens to keep the same time table (and is
obviously very related) it's not "Moore's Law" in action per se. I
propose we call it "The Will of Dave" for, I assure you, entirely
non-grandiose purposes.

-dhbarr.


On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:29:58 -0500, John Allain <allain at panix.com> wrote:
> > A PC part is worth roughly 1/100th of it's
> > value over about a 10-12 year time frame,
> 
> That's just Moore's Law, here's the math...
>    2.000 x  in  1.5 years    is
>    1.587 x  in  1.0 year      is
>   101.6 x  in 10.0 years
> *
> 
> I think the other rule (that people already know)
> is that when something goes below a value
> of about 50¢/lb, sellers don't want to carry the thing
> around any more, the price then crashes, the thing
> is scrapped and the rebound begins.
> 
> John A.
> * kind of as neat and easy as 10bits = 1K
> 
>