> When do you consider the "cold war" period to have 
> started?  I
> would has said MUCH earlier than 1965, and the period from 
> 1950
> to 1965 had similar growth in DJIA compared to 1985-2000
>
> Besides, isn't 1965 to 1985 when most of the interesting 
> things
> happened in electronics and computers?  Not so much the 
> fruits
> of Moore's law, but all the stuff that made it possible...

The Cold War, at the latest, started immediately after WW2 
and it had it's roots solidly in the WW2 era. A reading of 
any of the WW2 personal accounts of the Western leaders 
(Churchill being as good a place to start as any) makes this 
clear enough.

IMHOFWIW, Moore's law has no fruits - it's just an empirical 
comment on the way that fruit trees appear to grow.



        Russell


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