Re: OT: Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

From: Antoni Grzymala <antoni_AT_chopin.edu.pl>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:49:15 +0200

Szabolcs Nagy dixit (2009-07-14, 20:39):

> > perhaps not intuitively, but I also remember an IBM boss claiming 5
> > computers would be sufficient for the world back in the good ol' days.
>
> actually that is a hoax, thomas j watson probably never said it
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote
>
> > Another boss claiming 640kb was enough for everybody...

Ditto for the above quote. Gates apparently never said that [citation
needed, but can't be bothered].

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