640 kb
640 kb
Written by Severus in Monday, February 19th 2007   
In 1981, Bill Gates said that "640 k ought to be enough for anyone" Here's the background: For quite some time, a PC couldn't use more than 1 Mb RAM, i.e. 1024 kb. Of these, 384 were reserved for the system, and 640 left for the user. In the early 80's, this was an awful lot of memory, not to mention that it cost an awful lot of money, so initially it was hardly considered as [+]