On 13/03/2005, at 2:32 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
[snip]
Yep, limits to be exceeded. Did anybody remember who said, a few years ago,
that nobody would ever need more than 640KB in a computer? ;-)
Urban legend. Bill Gates, 1981. Refuted, 1996.
Used to be on urbanmyths.com when that still existed, and nobody's come up with an authorative cite for it that I know of - not that Google and 10 seconds worth of looking exactly counts as exhaustive.
http://tafkac.org/celebrities/bill.gates/gates_memory.html
-Laurent.
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