what is Moors law?
Moore’s Law (which is really more of a prediction than a law) says that you can put twice as many transistors on a computer chip every two years. Or maybe it one year, or a year and a half; Moore said different things at different times. His original prediction was made in 1965, and he only foresaw it through 1975, but it still holds 40 years later. The programmers always promptly use up all that additional computing power with extra features (like graphical interfaces), so it doesn’t necessarily seem faster to the user, but computers get powerful fast. It’s an exponential curve (which shows up as a straight line on the graph because it’s a logarithmic graph), so computers get a LOT faster. Moore’s law can’t hold up forever; exponential growth quickly gets out of hand. Everybody’s surprised it’s held up this long, and everybody figures in a few years it’ll be over. Fortunately, computers are Fast Enough for most purposes, and now it’s a matter of figuring out how to use all that comput
