Re: dual processors and linux



Jean-David Beyer writes:
People worried that Moore's law was soon to top out, and they were right:
if you look at the trouble they have making a 12-layer motherboard to
support 3 GHz processors, you can see how close they are to the limits.

Moore's law is about transistors per square inch, not clock rate.
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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