"ceed" wrote in
:

Frank wrote:

|ceed wrote:
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|| Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
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| |"Mr Gates was the one proclaiming that we would never need more
|than |640kb memory" That is a well known myth with no basis in fact.
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|| It may be myth or it may not. The jury is still out on that one.
|| There's no written proof that he said it, you are right there. But
||it doesn't turn into a myth because he denies having said it. I
||would have wanted to deny that also..
||
|| Take a look he
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||http://tickletux.wordpress.com/2007/...-say-the-640k-
||line/
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|
|Well the way the quote is quoted on the referenced URL is:
|
|“640K ought to be enough for anybody”.
|
|Which is vastly different from saying:
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|"Mr Gates was the one proclaiming that we would never need more than
|640kb memory".
|
|Frank

If you never need more then what you have ought to be enough, right?



The first is in context with the design and expectations at the time.
Given the 8086 proc, and IBM's prediction that they would sell about
250,000 of those new compuyers, the first quote is accurate.