Maybe I an state this here without getting a lot of flack apart feom of the youruber fan boys elsewhere... Shhhhh...but a lot of the youtubers who claim to be experts in vintage computing history or repairs are really just experts in Google and Wiki searching, with good speaking skills.
Just saying. As far as the Bill Gates quote, I do remember reading an actual longer quote somewhere (?), the context was lost from a larger paragraph if one takes just the snippet statement IIRC. On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 12:52 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > 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 >
