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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (25673)	2/1/2005 2:51:52 PM
From: regli	Read Replies (1) of 110194

I looked at some quotes in the Google returns and interestingly enough nobody stands up as a witness. It is simply a quote attributed to him. 1981 was the birth of the IBM PC and it originally had 16 KB expandable to 256 KB. Obviously Bill Gates had and did support more memory in the operating system that he supplied to IBM. An operating system for which he gets too much credit btw. "In 1981, Microsoft paid Seattle Software Works for an unauthorized clone of CP/M, and Microsoft licensed this clone to IBM which marketed it as PC-DOS on the first IBM PC in 1981, and Microsoft marketed it to all other PC OEMs as MS-DOS." maxframe.com Note that the competition (Digital Research CPM/86) already supported more memory and it was released in 1980. Given this environment in 1981 when EVERBODY wanted more memory (the 64 KB limitation was even causing problems for large documents in word processors that only supported in memory documents), the quote seems utterly ridiculous to me.

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