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>Bill Gates' famous quip about no-one ever needing more than 640kb He never said that. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed https://en.wikiq

• javajosh 5y ago
  Oh wow. Thanks. I edited my comment.
• BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  He denies he ever said it, there is a difference. We are talking about somebody who's company has been guilty of corrupting, lying, insulting, patent trolling, vendor locking, user spying, monopoly abusing, etc. Yet after years of PR, he is now regarded as a hero. So it's not unreasonable to think maybe he said it and later decided to rewrite history.
  • dale_glass 5y ago
    Even still, it's extremely unlikely. Unethical as he was, there's little doubt that Gates has an extremely good understanding of computers. And back then, memory limits were extremely tight and programmers ran into them all the time. Graphics and sound were a serious challenge in the DOS era. Heck, Gates probably remembered the times where a framebuffer was discussed as a theoretical construct, that would be useful if only one could have enough memory to implement one! And at 320x200, that's 10% of your 640K.