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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (69313)	9/27/2007 3:16:43 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213177

>>Didn't Bill make a remark about the web akin to the 640k memory prediction along the lines that it will never catch on?<< SP - Bill Gates is often quoted as having said in 1981 that 640k "ought to be enough for anybody". He denies having said it, though he does say that when IBM increased the maximum possible RAM in a PC from 64k to 640k, he thought that would be enough for about ten years. It wasn't. Gates did say, "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time." in 1987. So let's go ahead and mock him. ;-) He probably won't mind. I'm sure he'll just go on enjoying the fresh salmon from the hatchery in his private lake. - Allen

To: Stock Puppy who wrote (69313)	9/27/2007 3:54:11 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

You flatter me way too much. Nostradamus indeed. On Bill (I don't know about that remark, but he has had some notably insightful ones): It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing (1980) To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. At a conference on the Macintosh (1984) Quicktime clip at osdata.com (1.1 MB) The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. BusinessWeek, 26 November 1984 I used phone-net connectors early to play Bolo. Still have them somewhere.