If Moore's law says processor speed doubles every 18 months (actually, as originally stated, it predicted that the density of transistors on a microprocessor would double every 12 months, but it's been twisted mnay times in the last 25 years to fit history), then why don't our machines feel faster?

Well, Moore was a co-founder of Intel and, as we all know, the reason Intel has to keep making faster chips is to make their machines not feel so slow. Mind you, it's not Intel's fault that they feel slow, but because Microsoft has to double the complexity of its software every 18 months to even out the equations.

You don't believe me? Take a look at a screen shot of Microsoft Word 2001.

PS: If anyone has a screen shot of MS-Word 1 or 3, please forward it to me. I'd love to put it up for comparison.

Come to think of it, I might be able to find a copy and run it on the vMac Mac Plus emulator.