On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 12:22 PM Will Cooke via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > > > On 06/14/2023 12:58 PM CDT Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > > As far as the Bill Gates quote, I do remember reading an actual longer > > quote somewhere (?), the context was lost from a larger paragraph if one > > takes just the snippet statement IIRC. > > > > Maybe the longer quote was "I never said no one will ever need more than > 640K." ;) > There are two details that should be brought up. The quote is bogus, sure. Gates did work to increase the limit (There are stories of him getting the design changed from 512k to 640k, for example). He also has said that one shouldn't avoid the pc because of that.. which is way different than "never need" the quote uses... both of these are quite reasonable things... especially since obe of the original expanded memory schemes came from Microsoft in part... Warner
