Re: [ProgSoc] New ITD Computer Laboratory Equipment (fwd)

[Ben Reardon <benjamin@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Christian Kent wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Vik wrote:
> 
> > > sticking around for its full potential life.  The day 100MB becomes
> > > useless is a long way off. 
> > Famous last words...
> 
> In computing time, okay??  As in, the replacement hasn't been codenamed
> yet.  How long have we been making do with 1.44MB now anyway??  8 years?
> 

And we hear the famous words.....

"640k RAM is plenty of memory, why would you need more?"
"Multitasking cannot be done in under 4 meg RAM"

Can someone please remind me when these words were spoken (with serious
intent)?

Ben.

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