On 6/5/07, Eugen Leitl wrote:
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981
Hey, Bill Gates never said that! And he gets angry if you quote it to him. It is an out-of-context misquotation. See: <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15180#fn*> which contains an email from Bill explaining the context and saying he's fed up with denying he said it. The origin is in a Bill Gates Talk on Computing from 1989. <http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=39006> You can listen to the whole talk if you want, but the exact 640k quote from the talk is: "So that's a 1 MB address space. And in that original design I took the upper 340k and decided that a certain amount should be for video memory, a certain amount for the ROM and I/O, and that left 640k for general purpose memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640k memory barrier; the limit of how much memory you can put to these machines. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. <audience laughing>. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem." BillK ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
