Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:32:05 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>,
   WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Another prediction falls flat...
Cc: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 8/4/2006 02:55 PM, dicconf wrote:

>Another prediction right up there with "nobody will ever need more than
>64K of memory!"

If you mean Gates, I think he said 640K.  He was referring to the
IBM-created memory barrier in the original PC (they put memory-mapped
hardware above 640K, and the 8088 chip only had a 1 meg address
space).  Most PCs did only ship with 64k of memory though.

-- Mike B.