I would love to know what was in his head for that. All I can figure is it was to be some sort of sales or marketing thing that he never intended to stick to because common sense tells you there is no such animal as ‘enough’. Because there will always someone coming up with a ‘
+1’ requirement to imposed limits.
Perhaps because Moore’s law (which was forward thinking) had yet to be proclaimed, and no one in tech (including Gates) was able to imagine the progress that was possible.