These are pure hypotheticals and as such are not interesting at all. People back then knew very well what they'd do with beyond 64K. Unlike you who is simply h

These are pure hypotheticals and as such are not interesting at all. People back then knew very well what they'd do with beyond 64K. Unlike you who is simply hand-waving this away by saying "who knows what will we use it for". You're also forgetting financials which is quite a glaring omission. Modern computer prices haven't dropped much in a while now, like 5 years or so, because the bleeding edge remains expensive. Most people are unwilling to pay bigger and bigger prices for what they perceive as the same processing power -- and their perception is largely correct because software remains the dominating bottleneck in computing power. So nope, it's not the same 64K argument again. We have companies that desperately want us to believe that we want 512 GB/s RAM modules and we should pay thousands for the privilege of having hardware that is only 0.1% likely to be utilized properly. People do get hyped up when they see these impressive numbers, yes. But when they see the prices, they suddenly get smarter.