On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 05:37, Chad Smith wrote: > On 11/15/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't this the same person that stated that 640Mb of ram would be more > > than enough? Isn't this the same person that came in late to the > > Internet? Isn't this the same person that missed the search engine > > boom started by Yahoo and expanded by Google? > > Bill Gates never said that. It is a widely reported internet myth. > > http://tafkac.org/celebrities/bill.gates/gates_memory.html
Yep, Bill denies saying it. Of course he denies a lot of things :) "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. This may also be a myth. Attributions seem to get lost after a while, so who knows... Actually, tho, there are some interesting things in some of these articles. http://news.zdnet.com/5208-1009-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=6527&messageID=131873&start=-1 He claims to have said that the industry uses an extra two bits every couple of years... And yet MS desktop OS's seemed to have been behind in bits along the way. Slow to 32 bit, slow to 64 bit... lots of left over 8 bit stuff... hmmm. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. --------------------------------------------------------- Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Blog http://bcs4me.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
