it totally blew the 8 bit CPU of the day out of the water I think the counterargument in this context would be "...until we all went to 16-bit processors.". B

it totally blew the 8 bit CPU of the day out of the water I think the counterargument in this context would be "...until we all went to 16-bit processors.". But I understand the point you're making. These things tend to oscillate I think you're of course correct, and I don't think the original paper disputes that. What I think (without much research) has happened is that the period of that oscillation has dramatically expanded since the paper was written.