15 Jun
2023
15 Jun
'23
2:57 a.m.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023, Ali via cctalk 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....
"nobody needs more than 640K of memory now" would not be unreasonable.
"nobody will ever need more than 640K of memory now" would be unreasonable.
He has been denying it for more than 30 years.
But, if he had said it, then he would certainly like to deny it.