[Jeopardy!] No, no, NO, that clue was WRONG

[danny burstein]

I forget the category, but the clue was something like:

"This man's statement, now called ____'s law,
was that computers would double in speed
every year"

The respnse was, of course:

"Who is ... (rot-13) Zbber"

But his observation was... that this would
happen... every TWO years.
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[Steve VanDevender]

danny burstein writes:
> I forget the category, but the clue was something like:
>
> "This man's statement, now called ____'s law,
> was that computers would double in speed
> every year"
>
> The respnse was, of course:
>
> "Who is ... (rot-13) Zbber"
>
> But his observation was... that this would
> happen... every TWO years.

Moore's law is that the number of transistors on integrated circuits
doubles about every two years, and not about the speed of computers.

[Jim Ellwanger]

The exact wording from the show: "In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "law", predicting computing power would double every year"

Looking it up just now, he apparently predicted a doubling every year in his original 1965 article, and then in 1975 he revised the prediction to "will double every two years."

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