* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> When will they realise that Linux users don't waste their time in Britney
> Spears Web sites and MSN?
>
> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/29/bn-novell-reader-os/
What software do you use to gather that stats? Analog?
Your partial slur above does bring up a point -- there's a certain class
of consumer that has little or no knowledge about computers, and doesn't
care. They will go for the default solution. Or, if some
decision-making is actually involved, they'll go for the popular
solution. Some of Microsoft's market is a "McDonald's" market.
--
I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper
384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they
talk about the 640K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in
any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing
generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of
memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was
ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address
base for applications within... oh five or six years people were
complaining.
-- Bill Gates, Smithsonian Institution interview (1993)
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