Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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On 2018-07-30, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:03:35 PM UTC-6, JimP wrote:
>> We
>> decided that no home computyer would ever have a CPU that ran at 1 GHz
>> or better, nor have a gigabyte of ram. 
>
>> We were wrong.
>
> Ah, well.
>
> I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
> - Attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Sr.), but likely spurious
>
> There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
> - Kenneth H. Olsen, founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation
>
> 640K of RAM should be enough for anybody
> - Attributed to William H. Gates III, but he has denied it
>
> I think there are others like it, in this case two out of the three quotes I could easily find are apparently spurious
>
> John Savard

For a few years, I upgraded motherboards ("He are you _still_ using that
old thing?"), but over the last 5 or so years, I cannot see any reason to
perhaps faster USSB ports?


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Ma...@ireland.com
Will Rant For Food

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