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Well, 640K ought to be enough for anybody really.

• allenbrunson 17y ago
  ... except bill never said that. this is a false meme that really, really needs to die. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."
  • dpcan 17y ago
    I didn't even think of the meme. Personally, I thought of Norm. You don't know Norm, but he's the guy who sold my family our first 386 with a 40MB hard drive and said it was more than we'd ever use. He also sold me a copy of Sim Earth and said it was the best game ever made. The bastard.
  • malkia 17y ago
    He didn't say Bill. Or it might've been someone with the same name as The Bill Gates. And 640K is enough for everyone, at least it was enough 30 years ago :)
    • allenbrunson 17y ago
      the 640k barrier was a major pain in my butt for almost a decade. first we had expanded memory, then extended memory, both of which could only be used by some programs. then there were add-ons like qemm, which could remap physical ram into unused areas of the 384k add-on space. for a long time there, computers that had more unused rom space than others were more valuable to people like me who ran a bunch of memory-hungry apps. what a nightmare! i should have gotten on the unix bandwagon from the beginning. at the time i just didn't know any better.
  • kyro 17y ago
    "... except bill said that. this is a false meme that really, really needs to die." Yes, I know it's a misquote.
  • selven 17y ago
    Of course, if someone who would look foolish if he had made a certain statement would vehemently deny making it (or just forget it). Bill's refutation is not proof that he never made the comment.