Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996)

Re:Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anyb... by forinti on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:03PM (#18122877)

I must have been 12 or 13 years old when I first met an IBM PC. I was used to 8 bit micros having BASIC right away (and colour). But you couldn't do anything with a PC before using two floppies. First DOS then whatever. It just seemed awful. Why would anyone want one of those?

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Re:Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anyb... by nsxwolf on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:30PM (#18124351)

I was used to all the 8 bit machines and their graphics and sound too, but I was enthralled by 80 column BASIC and DOS with its hierarchal file system as well. I saw it as a separate branch of computing entirely.

And once EGA came out, it quickly started to surpass the 8 bits as a gaming platform too.

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Re:Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anyb... by Narishma on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @08:37AM (#18129564)

That's not correct. If you don't have a floppy disk, the PC boots into ROM BASIC just like the 8-bit home computers of the time.

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