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He says "About 9 years ago there was an article in the Scientific American with the title 'Software's Chronic Crisis'. (Scientific American, September 1994)", s
by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago
He says "About 9 years ago there was an article in the Scientific American with the title 'Software's Chronic Crisis'. (Scientific American, September 1994)", so 2003?
[Edited because I misinterpreted part of the original text]
That being said, he also says "The central processor in my computer contains about 10,000,000 transistors.", which would have been around 1999 (The Pentium III series had ~10M transistors in 1999, per Wikipedia's transistor count table).