Remember back when Billy said "*640K* is *more* memory *than anyone* will
ever *need"  ?

* For those of us that do, it really DID seem like a lot.  You could fit
your ENTIRE program in memory.  Why would you need such a thing?

I'm gonna save this thread for 20 years from now I can add it to the Bill
Gates quote and that one in popular science about computers fitting in a
room.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jim March wrote:
>
> >>>To put things back on firm earth and on-topicness... Why on earth would
> > Linus even waste his time on trying to get this much memory addressed in
> > the kernel? What is the rational behind it, besides being a publicity
> > stunt?<<
> >
> > It ensures Linux maintains dominance in supercomputing, and yeah, that
> > IS a publicity stunt...but what's wrong with that as long as it
> > doesn't hurt lesser systems?
>
> I didn't say it was wrong at all. I just think it's a little unnecessary.
>
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