On 2023-06-16 12:24 p.m., Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
I was at a Comdex once in Chicago where the featured speaker was Bill
Gates and he said that Microsoft would never write a program that needed
more than 256K of memory.
A few years later, Microsoft Exchange Server required a minimum of 256MB
of memory to run.
Just for comparison my new laptop has 128GB of memory.
Let's not write better code, lets just add more memory and faster
processorsĀ <- Microsoft Programmers Mantraš
Lets not blame Bill for everything,
Ken , Jobs and Wozniak need their fair share.
Graphics and file system buffers take up more
space than you expect.
Ben.
