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[tcgv]

Since I was at Intel at the time neither one of us expected computers to get 1,000x better than they were at that moment in time

Wasn't Moore's law[1] as widespread as it is nowadays back then?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

[ChuckMcM → tcgv]

Yes, and in fact Gordon was still Chairman of Intel, but the thing about exponentials is they are always S curves. The trick is knowing when they are going to taper off and go flat :-)

[bencollier49 → ChuckMcM]

You mean a logistic function. It starts off looking exponential. Exponentials don't go flat.