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The phrase probably wasn't uttered by anyone it's attributed to: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/. Even "the time" is unknown.

And Bill probably _didn't_ do anything on Epstein Island...

Regardless of the time, people have always happily accepted more.

I’d argue most “people” haven’t actually needed more in a very long time other than to keep the same old software running. The requirements bloat of operating systems, browsers, and majority of software isn’t really a generalized “people” thing; more so the state of the industry being a form of inertial bloat.

> People were perfectly happy with 640k ram at the time that phrase was uttered.

I'm assuming this is a sarcastic response to the person who said "640K [RAM] ought to be enough for anybody!"

Because, as somebody who was around when we had 640 K RAM, people certainly weren't happy with that amount.

Ah, the hours spent tweaking CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to run a MS-DOS game that squeezed every last byte of those 640K, good times.

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