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To: Squawk 8888; Swordmaker; dayglored

“who could possibly need more than 640k” by Bill Gates.

There's still a lot of debate about whether Gates actually said that, but this definitely happened.

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16 posted on 02/06/2011 11:26:40 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)

To: martin_fierro

What an awesome clip. Gates was trying to go all "Scanners" on the fellow who made that quip.

He probably wanted to kill this guy too.

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

22 posted on 02/06/2011 12:17:20 PM PST by The Comedian (Muslim Brotherhood = A.N.S.W.E.R = Soros = Obama)

To: martin_fierro; Squawk 8888; Swordmaker

> “who could possibly need more than 640k” by Bill Gates. ... There's still a lot of debate about whether Gates actually said that, ...

Nah, no debate. He never said it. Gates and Microsoft said a lot of silly things over the years, but not that one. In fact Gates railed against IBM for limiting the available RAM to only 640KB. He wanted the entire 1MB native address space of the 8086 available.

I'm no fan of Gates, but this particular criticism is a canard.

As to whether anyone in IBM -did- say it in those or similar words, I don't recall. It could be something overheard in a meeting, or even a complete fabrication.

29 posted on 02/06/2011 2:02:59 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)

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