On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:56:57 +0100, Hadron wrote:
> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> * Rick peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:26:20 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>
>>>> Apparently Roy Schestowtiz also has a giganews account that he trolls
>>>> from. He slipped up yesterday and posted a couple of messages from
>>>> that ISP.
>>>>
>>>> He is back on demon.net (Mark Kent's machine via SSH) today.
>>>>
>>>> 0wned!
>>>
>>> So what? Beeg Deel.
>>
>> I think it is rather nice of Mark to share come CPU time with Roy.
>>
>> Man, Bill sure seems to have wavered on this 640K issue:
>
> God you must be a really intelligent guy Liarnut if you never made an
> error in judgement. At least he addresses the mistake! Some chance of
> any COLA morons doing that.
>
> ,----
> | I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was
> | providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to
> 640k felt | like something that would last a great deal of time. Well,
> it didn't - it | took about only 6 years before people started to see
> that as a real problem. | -- Bill Gates, 1989 speech on the history
> of the microcomputer industry. `----
>
> If big head Liarnut been there, he would have guessed the right amount
> of memory in 10 years time eh? You're wasted in that little back water
> SW house of yours.
>
> We wont even mention HW limitations at the time which made predictions
> even harder. The jump to 640 was indeed HUGE at the time.
>
> Lets see, Bill Gates started and made successful one of the biggest
> companies of all time. Liarnut haunts COLA telling lies about his Vim
> and "Intellisense" usage in addition to shilling Roy's posts.
>
> Hmmm.......
Gee... I guess all of us Apple //e guys with 1 meg were REALLY ahead of
the curve in 1985.
--
Rick
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