11 Jun
2004
11 Jun
'04
3:04 p.m.
[Gates] said that there was no way to multitask in
anything under 8mb
of ram.
A reporter in the back raised his hand and asked if
Bill was aware
that his own AmigaBasic would multitask on a 256k Amiga 1000.....
Gates pretended he didn't hear [...]
Heh. When I first came to Montreal, we had a VAX running VMS,
supporting the whole lab. Multitasking.
I don't know how much RAM it had, but more than 8M would surprise me.
This _was_ 1980. Heck, we had only about 30M of _disk_!
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