On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Paul Schlyter wrote:
Moore's law doesn't seem to hold as much anymore... In 1994 I bought a personal PC: a 64 MHz 486 with 8 MB RAM and 1 GB HD In 1998 I bought another personal PC: a 300 MHz P-II with 64MB RAM and 8 GB HD In 2002 I bought another personal PC: a 1.8 GHz P-IV with 512 MB RAM and 120 GB HD Next year it's time for my next PC, which should be a 10 GHz P-VI with 4096 MB RAM and an 1800 GB HD ..... I don't think that will happen....
I mostly used old hand-me-downs. My current computer is actually only the second one I've bought though maybe the 10th or 12th I've owned. (Celeron/700, 64 MB RAM; the other was a 486DX2/50 with 8 MB RAM)