cgeiger@ut-ngp.UUCP (05/14/87)
I dug out the premier issue of _Macworld_ this morning and found
this quote from Bill Gates about the Mac's memory (128K at the
time, if we all remember):
It's certainly enough memory. The Mac started out
with 64K, which is one-sixteenth of what the Lisa
started out with. Because the Mac's bit map is
smaller than the Lisa's, we thought we could do
something with that amount of memory. But we were
pushing for 128K all the way. . . .
When you're writing applications that are going to
be simple to use, it's important to have some
boundaries that prevent you from throwing in an
unlimited number of features; the memory size provides
that limit. . . .
How ironic. Now, three years (or however long) later, you
realistically need 1200K of disk space to run Word 3.0; in
addition, you need AT LEAST 512K of RAM, and probably should
have a Mac+. How far we've come (or gone).
cheers, from
charles s. geiger
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harvard!ut-sally!ut-ngp!cgeigerwoody@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (05/16/87)
So? Remember y'all when 4K was a lot of memory, and you simply hadn't the foggiest idea what to do with all that memory when you finally shelled out the money for 16K? And now here we are, complaining because our personal computer has less than 4,096K memory in it... - William Woody Mac! > ][n && /|\ woody@tybalt.caltech.edu woody@juliet.caltech.edu