“I know you remember 2003 when Ballmer declared Linux a “cancer”... “
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That other feller who said-—Who needs more than 640K?
In truth, neither Bill Gates nor anyone at Microsoft ever said that. The 640KB limit on addressable RAM in the IBM PC was a result of IBM's hardware design, not Microsoft's software -- it was a function of the upper-memory range being used for I/O and other system functions.
Bill Gates was a software guy, and any sort of hardware-imposed limit was anathema to him. Of course, the Intel 8088's limit of 1MB wasn't that much higher than 640KB. But Microsoft worked very hard to circumvent those limits, with expanded and extended memory.
He did make a few comments about the 640KB limit, but not the misattributed one above. https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
Bill Gates did and said many, many stupid and regrettable things, but that particular one is not his.