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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: NedNed Date: Sep 9, 2008 19:22
jeremy wrote:
> GB wrote:
> Stuff we take for granted now was
>> unthinkable even 10 years ago. I'm not about to claim that I could
>> even begin to guess at what computer technology I'll see 25 years from
>> now.
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>> GB
>
> The famous example of how short sighted we can be is the famous set of
> quotes:
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> "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981
> "Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM." -- Bill Gates, 1996
> "Nobody will ever need Windows 95." -- logical conclusion
"You ain't goin' nowhere, son
-- you ought to go back to drivin' a
truck" Jim Denny, Sept. 25, 1954 as he fired Elvis Presley after one
performance at the Grand Ole Opry.
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