Comment on A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood gameparentComments−tcgv12ySince I was at Intel at the time neither one of us expected computers to get 1,000x better than they were at that moment in timeWasn't Moore's law[1] as widespread as it is nowadays back then?[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law−ChuckMcM12yYes, and in fact Gordon was still Chairman of Intel, but the thing about exponentials is they are always S curves. The trick is knowing when they are going to taper off and go flat :-)−bencollier4912yYou mean a logistic function. It starts off looking exponential. Exponentials don't go flat.
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Since I was at Intel at the time neither one of us expected computers to get 1,000x better than they were at that moment in time
Wasn't Moore's law[1] as widespread as it is nowadays back then?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
Yes, and in fact Gordon was still Chairman of Intel, but the thing about exponentials is they are always S curves. The trick is knowing when they are going to taper off and go flat :-)
You mean a logistic function. It starts off looking exponential. Exponentials don't go flat.