On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:54, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > That one is right up there with memorable sayings from CEO's... > > Another of my favorites was DEC's CEO saying that no one would ever have > or tolerate a computer at home. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 And, of course, this famous quote: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" -- Thomas J. Watson, Chaiman of IBM, 1943. And a few more: "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs." -- Bill Gates (from the Foreword to the OS/2 Programmers' Guide) "Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992, writing to Linus Torvalds. > Or at SIG-GRAPH, one of the VP's from Evans and Sutherland saying that > PC's would never have enough graphics horsepower to do anything in real > time... If you read the recent press release from nVidia, you will see that they can render "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" (the movie) in "real-time". Examine the release closer and you will see that it is rendering at a whopping two-and-a-half frames per second! "Real-time" indeed... But seriously, this is still a magnificient feat -- but it was overhyped. Some months ago, I saw a video of Steve Jobs presenting the then-new nVidia GeForce 3 on Mac hardware. He showed a short animated 3D movie that his company, Pixar, made back in 1985. He said that back then it took a Cray supercomputer 75 hours to render a single second of animation. He then exclaimed that what the audience was viewing on the large screeen at the front of the auditorium was being rendered in _real-time_ by a GeForce 3 in a Mac. Simply amazing. > -JMS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > |-----Original Message----- > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sridhar > |Dhanapalan > |Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:50 AM > |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > |[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > | > | > |Perhaps you mean this little quote: > | > |"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 > | > |On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:21, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > |> Didn't someone once say that 640K of Ram was more than anyone would > |> ever need? > |> > |> -JMS > |> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |> > |> |-----Original Message----- > |> |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |> |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of etharp > |> |Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 7:00 AM > |> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Charles Punch; > |> |[EMAIL PROTECTED] > |> |Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > |> | > |> | > |> |"enough RAM" and "Enough Money" are myths. they do not > | > |really exist, > | > |> |you always want more. > | > |-- > |Sridhar Dhanapalan. > | "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: > | LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." > | -- Jeremy S. Anderson -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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