Steven Levy - One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, ... (1996)

Update: 2025-03-17

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Why does System 7.5 take so long to start up?

Original text by Steven Levy, Macworld April 1996.

Avoid conflating Moore’s Law with Dennard scaling.

65scribe has an easily-digested summary of Dennard scaling in his extensive Power Mac G5 coverage.

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Steven Levy - One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, ... (1996)

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Steven Levy - One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, ... (1996)