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"640K ought to be enough for anybody!" Eventually, seemingly sane assumptions become anachronistic laughing points. (Even if they're apocryphal...)
by bigiain 6y ago
"640K ought to be enough for anybody!"
Eventually, seemingly sane assumptions become anachronistic laughing points. (Even if they're apocryphal...)
- amedvednikov 6y agoThis is not a sane assumption, and he never said it, it's a myth.
- bigiain 6y agoI disagree, specifically depending on when that assumption might have been made. My first computer came with 1KB of ram, expandable to 16KB. I have no doubt the designers of that and most of their peers at the time made similar assumptions. My second computer has interesting "bank switching" to circumvent the 16 bit database limitations of it's 8bit cpu that could openly address 64KB, and managed to mostly usefully have 128KB of ram in it. I suspect it's designers would have also happily made an assumption about 640KB being "enough for anyone". (Also, maybe you should look up the definition of "apocryphal? I know he never said it, and strongly alluded to that, and didn't attribute it to Bill for that reason...)