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Article #625118Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: David Wade
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:01
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:01
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On 30/07/2018 23:25, Quadibloc 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 That was supposed to be in 1943 when no one had built a computer that stored its program in RAM. > > 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 >
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