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Excerpt from the Register article today The Register -Gates Interview
"64 bit is coming to desktops, there is no doubt about that," he said. "But apart from Photoshop, I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory, which is what you have to have in order to benefit from this technology. Right now, it is costly."
This is from the same guy who said in the early 80's that 640K ought to be enough for everybody...
I think he should stick to what he knows best -stealing and extortion- instead of making computer predictions.
P.S. His statement at the end of the article about "we invented personal computing" is a great laugh.
"64 bit is coming to desktops, there is no doubt about that," he said. "But apart from Photoshop, I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory, which is what you have to have in order to benefit from this technology. Right now, it is costly."
This is from the same guy who said in the early 80's that 640K ought to be enough for everybody...
I think he should stick to what he knows best -stealing and extortion- instead of making computer predictions.
P.S. His statement at the end of the article about "we invented personal computing" is a great laugh.