14 Jun
2023
14 Jun
'23
4:19 p.m.
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.
Sellam
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 9:47 PM Ali via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
So I had always heard the quote "640KB is enough
memory" being attributed
to
Bill Gates. However, recently I was watching Dave Plummer on YT and he said
that it is not true:
https://youtu.be/bikbJPI-7Kg?t=372
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
So I guess like the napkin/disk story and the DR/IBM story this is another
one of those vintage myths and folk lore with no real basis in reality....
-Ali