2008? So... anything happen since? I assume nobody took him up on his offer!<p>&quot;Alan Kay: [...] &quot;Just as an aside [...] a benchmark from 1979 at Xerox PARC runs only 50 times faster today. Moore’s law has given us somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 times improvement in that time. So there’s approximately a factor of 1,000 in efficiency that has been lost by bad CPU architectures.&quot;&quot;<p>Is he complaining that machines today aren&#x27;t a bunch of micro-coded, multi-chip computers like in the good old days, or does he have a better proposal to the modern multi-core, superscalar OoO processors coupled to GPGPU multi-threaded engines?<p>Because complaining about Moore&#x27;s Law feels a bit meaningless if DRAM is still 100ns away.