If I remember correctly, it was 640K that Bill thought was perfectly adequate. On the other hand, Ken Olsen, when he was CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, made the rather amusing statement that "I see no reason why anyone would want to have a computer in their home."
It's out of date now, but one of my favourite movie clips was one of Bill Gates at a podium, proudly announcing "Of course, part of what you're seeing here at Comdex is a strong message that we believe OS/2 is the Platform for the Nineties." Ahhh, Bill. Open mouth, insert foot. With a cream pie chaser.
I discovered today that, with default settings, Windows ME will cheerfully continue to allocate more memory to its disk cache every time new data is accessed from the disk, without releasing older data, until there's no physical memory free.
If an application subsequently requests some memory, it will release the least-recently-used blocks to satisfy the request, but the System Information Tool (and the GlobalMemoryStatus() API function) doesn't take the discardable cache memory into account when returning the metric of free physical memory, hence the appearance that the system is running low.
Put a sufficiently large number of monkeys in front of a sufficiently large number of computers, and you don't get the complete works of Shakespeare -- you get Microsoft Windows!
(Hmmm... Windows Monkey Edition?)
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Jeff Lee --
shipbrk@gate.net --
http://www.gate.net/~shipbrk/
Etiam singula minima maximi momenti est.
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