> [Gates] said that there was no way to multitask in anything under 8mb
> of ram.
> A reporter in the back raised his hand and asked if Bill was aware
> that his own AmigaBasic would multitask on a 256k Amiga 1000.....
> Gates pretended he didn't hear [...]
Heh. When I first came to Montreal, we had a VAX running VMS,
supporting the whole lab. Multitasking.
I don't know how much RAM it had, but more than 8M would surprise me.
This _was_ 1980. Heck, we had only about 30M of _disk_!
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