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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