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Moore's Law Original Issue Found
Daemon writes "BBC News reports that a copy of the original issue of Electronics magazine in which Moore's Law was first published has been found under the floorboards of a Surrey engineer's home. David Clark had kept copies of the magazine for years, despite pleas from his wife to throw them away." Intel, it seems, has its bounty fulfilled.
Well, there's two options:
One, he's using the $10k to pay for *some* of the wedding expenses.
Two, his daughters aren't having weddings that consist of needless expense.
I like the latter option personally. Total cost for my wedding was under $1k.
As someone pointed out in the other thread, that copy is most likely already on ebay. It's a bit suspicious that this copy is located in Chicago, disassembled, has what looks to be whiteout where a library stamp would be, and has the disclaimer "This article was not a library copy."
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Apparently the publisher has since gone out of business (That was the reason given before for the search). My suspicion was that Intel was trying to use "news" to get a bit of free advertising around the time of their dual-core release. Also this would help to differentiate Intel from AMD in people's minds.
After all, people will think "Intel has that guy who predicts fast chips."