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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (25649)2/1/2005 2:11:58 PM
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I am the last defender of Bill Gates, especially his ethics. However, the comment about the 64k is simply a low blow.

If he made the comment at all, he would have made it in the mid seventies (as a 20 year old) while writing the MS Basic interpreter. However, I doubt it as he had extensively played earlier in a timesharing environment on a PDP-10 which supported 256 Kwords (1152 KB). In addition, anybody familiar with Basic soon gets confronted with memory issues and as computer geeks, I am sure they were looking at other architectures but the 8080 and therefore were well aware that Virtual Memory was already in widespread use on mainframes.
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