Scott Nudds and 1Gig of RAM
I’ve just stumbled on a discussion about a newgroup posting 10 years ago, where someone called Kristian Thommesen (a student) was asking about the possibility of 1Gig RAM in PCs. Anyways – a user called Scott Nudds shot-him-down in flames saying that the maximum anyone could ever need is 200MB.
This throws up two things:
1) People NEVER EVER LEARN. God – everyone knows that bill gates said this about 640KB.
2) Some people just love to cause an argument.
After a bit of googling, I stumbled across quite a few postings here (#4) and there, and all of them seem to point to the fact that Scott Nudds was/is a troll.
Which leads me to my next point that people never learn: Don’t feed the trolls.
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Josef A
2. July 2009 | 17:37 hGates never said that thing about 640K.
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484
The Doctor
17. October 2009 | 03:44 hYes, Nudds has been casting out his fishing line for quite a spell. I recall about 20 years ago he had the Fidonet C programming echo in an uproar over his contention that “C does not optimize”.