Re: tlug: Hello, I'm a newbie and help!

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com> writes:

> >  	"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
> > 				--  Bill Gates, 1981
> 
> Actually, Bill Gates publicly stated that he never said anything like
> that, and no one (to the best of my knowledge) has ever produced a record
> showing that he did.  I'm sure that if he had, there would be many
> records of it.  This one looks like an urban legend to me :-)

I have seen a citation for this, and a longer quote.  The gist
was that he did not foresee the 640k barrier becoming a problem
until after the turn of the century --- the text did not have the
overtone of contempt that the apocryphal short-form suggests.
Unfortunately, I didn't save the reference.  (Could have been a
bogus cite, of course, which would make both quotations
apocryphal...) At the least, Gates is on record as having been
surprised by the speed with which the 640k area was chewed up by
new applications.  See the transcript of a video interview,
available among other places at:

  http://innovate.si.edu/history/gates/gates44.htm

Cheers,
-- 
Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
Faculty of Law, Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com
Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     () WWW:   http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~bennett/
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