RE: [GENERAL] 4 billion record limit?

[bmccoy]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Dave Burbidge wrote:

> Also, Bill Gates said something along the lines of nobody will ever need 
> more than 640KB of RAM ... which was the usable limit on the old XT's 
> (remember them :) in the early MS-DOS days :)

Actually, I think the quote is an urban legend.

Brett W. McCoy
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