Comments on: new technical trends which have no future /2008/02/new-technical-trends-which-have-no-future/ Sarah Allen's reflections on internet software and other topics Sun, 04 May 2008 19:28:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: Sarah /2008/02/new-technical-trends-which-have-no-future/#comment-299 Sun, 04 May 2008 19:28:39 +0000 /wordpress/?p=353#comment-299 There does seem to be some debate about that quote. Interesting reference here, though: http://imranontech.com/2007/02/20/did-bill-gates-say-the-640k-line/

]]> By: Ian Griffiths /2008/02/new-technical-trends-which-have-no-future/#comment-298 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:27:33 +0000 /wordpress/?p=353#comment-298 The Bill Gates quote is infamously nothing whatsoever to do with Bill Gates. (For one thing, Microsoft had the 640K limit imposed on them by IBM – it was a PC hardware limit, not an MS DOS thing.)

Got provenance for the other quotes? They’re oft repeated, but never with any verifiable references.

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