14 Jun
2023
14 Jun
'23
4:52 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:21 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Based on other videos of Dave's that I've
watched he doesn't really know
what he's talking about so I wouldn't lend much credence to his apocrypha
either.
Agreed. Some months back, Dave put out one of his videos with a
click-bait headline that was, well, false. He did not respond well to
that being pointed out. His "insider knowledge" hasn't impressed me.
> So I had always heard the quote "640KB is
enough memory" being attributed
> to Bill Gates
>
> And apparently the man himself has denied it as well but it just will not
> go away...
>
> https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=5214635
It's entirely possible, even probable, BG didn't say exactly those
words no matter what people think they remember. OTOH, I do remember,
back in the day, that he _did_ make a similar statement, *but* unlike
the myth, it wasn't to belittle PC users, but whatever he _did_ say
was a caution to application programmers that the max available memory
space _ought to_ be enough to write reasonable programs for the PC
market, that there were ways to write programs that _would_ fit in
640K and you should be doing that.
So I'm not gonna swear he said those words, I do remember something
along those lines was said ~40 years ago.
-ethan