• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    At a computer trade show in 1981, Bill Gates supposedly uttered this statement, in defense of the just-introduced IBM PC’s 640KB usable RAM limit: “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

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      6 months ago

      That quote was in the context of the 1981 personal computer market, and in that context is correct.

      It’s like a game company CEO saying 12GB of video ram is enough in 2024 so we don’t all need an RTX 4090.