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coventry 2 months ago | link

Is there a graph showing how well it holds up?
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  Forty-Bot 2 months ago | link
  
  No, but I can tell you right now it doesn’t.
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    zie 2 months ago | link
    
    Not the specifics, but the over-arching ideas pretty much hold up I’d say.
    
    Open Systems: Sure Oracle hasn’t died yet, but even MS is even getting on the Open bandwagon to some degree.
    
    Software Distribution Channels: well OK the Internet ate the CDROM up, but retail software in a store is 99% dead, he called that.
    
    Kernel/base source code explosion: Drivers def. take up way too much room in the kernel :)
    
    Multiprocessor: def. true
    
    Networking: well OK 3 directions, Internet/WAN, Wireless(LAN) and high-speed LAN(fiber and friends)
    
    Java: pretty much true, minus the systems programming part.
    
    Nomadic devices: smartphones totally made this true.
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      Forty-Bot 2 months ago | link
      
      I was mainly referring to the title claim of “2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second” because OP was asking for a graph.
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xi 2 months ago | link

What’s that C++++-= language he keeps referencing? Some theoretical, perfect language or an early code name for Java?
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  sevan 2 months ago | link
  
  zing :)