Law of Computers

Moore’s Law is more of an observation than a law, and it is often misconstrued to mean that about every 18 months computers and everything associated with them double in capacity, speed, and so on.

There’s another “law,” this one attributed to Nicklaus Wirth: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Even though, according to Moore’s Law, your personal computer should be about a hundred thousand times more powerful than it was 25 years ago, your word processor isn’t.

Moore’s Law doesn’t apply to software.

With Moores law there always appears to be a bottleneck that needs to leap-frog the latest new thing. For example; Memory gets faster, disks get bigger, but the bus in the Mother Board is slow. The next big bottleneck will be the internet. No one imagined that all of the fiber available just won’t be enough for people’s home use.