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jacquesm on June 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary...

Moore's law is essentially about density (and hence about price), not about speed, the speed was a side-effect.

digi_owl on June 19, 2016 [–]

Kinda. Density allows for either speed or for price, and going for speed allowed the companies to hold the price fixed.

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