Moore's law is about the number of transistors. The 6502 had ~3500. Modern desktop CPUs have ~2,500,000,000 (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transist

Moore's law is about the number of transistors. The 6502 had ~3500. Modern desktop CPUs have ~2,500,000,000 (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore%27s_Law_-_2011.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore... ). So that's more like 1,000,000x (thus six orders of magnitude). Then again, the grandparent was talking about speed, and speed doesn't scale linearly with the number of transistors.