🚀 go-pugleaf

I dug out the premier issue of _Macworld_ this morning and found
this quote from Bill Gates about the Mac's memory (128K at the
time, if we all remember):

	It's certainly enough memory.  The Mac started out
	with 64K, which is one-sixteenth of what the Lisa
	started out with.  Because the Mac's bit map is
	smaller than the Lisa's, we thought we could do
	something with that amount of memory.  But we were
	pushing for 128K all the way. . . .

	When you're writing applications that are going to
	be simple to use, it's important to have some
	boundaries that prevent you from throwing in an
	unlimited number of features; the memory size provides
	that limit. . . .

How ironic.  Now, three years (or however long) later, you
realistically need 1200K of disk space to run Word 3.0; in
addition, you need AT LEAST 512K of RAM, and probably should
have a Mac+.  How far we've come (or gone).

cheers, from
charles s. geiger
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