14 Jun
2023
14 Jun
'23
5:58 p.m.
Maybe I an state this here without getting a lot of flack apart feom of
the youruber fan boys elsewhere... Shhhhh...but a lot of the youtubers who
claim to be experts in vintage computing history or repairs are really just
experts in Google and Wiki searching, with good speaking skills.
Just saying.
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.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 12:52 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
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