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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Moore's Law
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.164237.22607@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 16:42:37 GMT

In article <161@zds-ux.UUCP> gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes:
>>There is actually a still more impressive observation, somewhat related:
>>the number of transistors on Earth has been doubling every 10 months for
>>the last 30 years...
>
>Did you come up with this "rule" yourself, or get it from someone else?

It's from somewhere else, but I'm afraid I can't cite a specific reference.
It was an impressive number (although as others have pointed out, it seems
a little bit too quick to be true), and the graph of transistor population
(on a log scale) vs. time was impressively linear.  Unfortunately, I read
an awful lot of technical literature -- my mail is measured in kilograms
per week -- and this was a year or two ago, so I have no idea where I saw
it.  Sorry.
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