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[Alby_da_Wolf]

fordy said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

ebw said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

sethnintendo said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

"640kB should be enough for everybody"  (Bill Gates)

lol what year was that quote?  Late 80s or early 1990s?

Late '80s, I guess, and his die hard fans (and even he himself) have been trying for some time to pretend he never said it because the original source isn't on the net: but it can't be there, the Web didn't exist yet! He said it in an interview or a conference.   

A 1987 Macintosh had a maximum memory capacity of 20MB, so it is unlikely anyone would be saying this in the late '80s.  This sounds more like early '80s when the first MS-DOS machines were coming out.

640kB was for RAM, notHDD, but you're right anyway, it must have been early '80s, as in 1985 intel launched the 386 (although MS started using its 32bit quite later).

A little tidbit to add to that, not only was he talking about RAM, I believe he was talking about Conventional memory (which to this day still holds true to the DOS platforms. Even the last DOS platform in Windows 98 used 640KB Conventional memory. All other memory is class as either High Memory or Extended memory)

Yes, I remember: some years later, due to limited funds available at the uni and not owning a PC yet, after having always programmed on UNIX, once I had to cope with that pesky memory management, I still hate it. Even people I know,  used to program on the Commodore 64, with its tiny 64kB, hated DOS memory management...