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As Bill Gates was alleged to have said "640k ought to be enough for anybody."
by pkaye 7y ago
As Bill Gates was alleged to have said "640k ought to be enough for anybody."
- b212 7y agoHe did not say that, sorry.
- Darkphibre 7y agoBut he did say we wouldn't likely see speeds in excess of 64kbps. I save that article for decades, still have it somewhere in a filing cabinet, even though it's been scrubbed from the internet. He was referencing the limitations of copper POTS, of course. But I still found it funny (if I recall correctly, it was printed side-by-side with his debunking of the 'you only need so much ram' quote).
- hermitdev 7y ago64kbps was a limitation of old analog phone lines, which were pretty noisy and also also operated at a pretty low frequency (they only allowed up to a certain frequency, anything beyond was clipped on old analog lines). In practice, dont know that I saw anything beyond 56k. And you could only get that on a clean line, near a switching station. My self, not sure I ever saw much beyond 48k, maybe occasionally 52k, but dont think I ever saw a dialup connection hit the full 56k. Higher speeds werent possible until moving to digital lines (64k for IDSN, single line, 128k for dual). DSL upped the anty, pushing to 1-3 Mbps in my area. Cable really pushed it when I could get 15 Mbps vs best available DSL in my area at around 3 Mbps. Today, I have around 200 Mbps over cable (gigabit is available), best DSL in the area is still around 25 Mbps. Fiber is not available yet, but AT&T is running fiber, but 2 years in, still not an option and they haven't published pricing/speeds for the area.
- Rerarom 7y agoMy top dial-up speed was 46.6 kbps (not sure if kilobytes or kibibytes)
- jazzyjackson 7y agobut he was alleged to !