Re: OT: 32-bit vs 64-bit speeds

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Arnold Krille wrote:

> And that "ought to be enough for everybody" is a funny reference. Like that

Yes.  I took it as extremely tongue-in-cheek.  It harkens back to the time 
Bill Gates was asked why he reserved 384k of the 8086's available 1M of 
address space for system ROMs and video, when he could have implemented a 
banking scheme and left it all available for RAM.  His answer was 'Because 
640k is enough for anybody'

-- 
Rick Green

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
                                   -Benjamin Franklin

_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Sound]     [ALSA Users]     [Pulse Audio]     [ALSA Devel]     [Sox Users]     [Linux Media]     [Kernel]     [Photo Sharing]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Media]

  Powered by Linux