14 Jun
2023
14 Jun
'23
6:46 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 12:22 PM Will Cooke via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
There are two details that should be brought up. The quote is bogus, sure.
Gates did work to increase the limit (There are stories of him getting the
design changed from 512k to 640k, for example). He also has said that one
shouldn't avoid the pc because of that.. which is way different than "never
need" the quote uses... both of these are quite reasonable things...
especially since obe of the original expanded memory schemes came from
Microsoft in part...
Warner
On 06/14/2023 12:58 PM CDT Bill Degnan via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
As far as the Bill Gates quote, I do remember reading an actual longer
quote somewhere (?), the context was lost from a larger paragraph if one
takes just the snippet statement IIRC.
Maybe the longer quote was "I never said no one will ever need more than
640K." ;)