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Subject:Re: Y2K Comments From:Kris Olberg <kjolberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:12:32 -0600
>"640K ought to be enough for everybody."
>
>An aside: Said computer maven has, or had, an Ann Landers-style
>question-and-answer column in which he would answer computing questions.
In
>1995 or early 1996, someone asked him about this statement. He denied
>making it, adding that naturally as computers increased in power, memory
>demands would also grow.
The "said computer maven" was Bill Gates in 1981.
Regards...Kris
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