On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 12:02 PM ben via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > processors <- Microsoft Programmers Mantra😕 > > 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. > Completely silly. You can maybe group Jobs and Gates together in terms of programming skill, but where as Jobs stole ideas from others he at least did so with class. Olsen maybe made dumb predictions but at least his products worked well. And St. Woz shall not be impugned with such blasphemous associations. Sellam
