On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:21 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk <cctalk@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
