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> It's similar to the gates quote about RAM (I think it was 64KB?) 640, and Bill Gates said he either never said that, or at least never remembered having sai

> It's similar to the gates quote about RAM (I think it was 64KB?) 640, and Bill Gates said he either never said that, or at least never remembered having said it. I think there is no evidence anywhere that he did. https://www.computerworld.com/article/1563853/the-640k-quote-won-t-go-away-but-did-gates-really-say-it.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/1563853/the-640k-quote...

Shorel 3mo ago
That exact quote? No, never. He said something like: current computers at the time had 64kb of RAM, so the OS was designed with a limit of 640kb, and he believed this would give them 10 years of future proofing. As it happened, that limit was reached much faster, in about 6 years.
- valleyer 3mo ago
  MS-DOS didn't create that limit; the physical memory map of the 5150 did. So Microsoft (and Gates) would not have made that decision.
  - Shorel 3mo ago
    You are right. The quote must have been slightly different then. I'm sure about the 10 years part.