Grunff wrote:
John Cartmell wrote:

Even so, each machine will only have a lifetime of 2-3 years.


In that case there is something badly wrong with the system.


Only in that hardware performance continues to increase in accordance
with Moore's law.

And the first corollary of Moore's Law is that software authors get more
and more lazy as a result and write less and less efficient code. Anyone
remember the Sinclair Z88? It had an operating system and Pipedream
(combined text processor, spreadsheet, database and comms package) in
12K (yes, that's a K not an M).

Douglas de Lacey