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He did say something very close to that: > When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory. The parent is not even using the quote for it’s original effect, I find it amusing that you’d take the time to comment on that.
i've never seen that, but even if he said it, that quote is not even in the same ballpark. the 8088 had a one megabyte address space, more or less. when the original architects were deciding how to allocate that space to ram, rom, peripherals, etc, it made sense to talk about where to put the dividing line, to say how much of it goes to ram. that's a small-scale technical-decision-type quote, whereas the one that get…
Maybe you’re reading too much into it? I think he was honestly amazed by a 10x jump, and we hadn’t learned yet that programs will naturally expand to fill all the resources available.