Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:36:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
cc: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Another prediction falls flat...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Mike B. wrote:

> 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.

That'sd probably how the apocryphal "64K" got into the story.

-- Dick Eney
    Edd Cartier deserves a retro-Hugo