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2 Jun 2025 Acquired The Steve Ballmer Interview
“You couldn’t speak to more than 640K of memory. We didn’t break the 640K barrier until (I think) Windows 3.”
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- 2 Jun 2025
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- The Steve Ballmer Interview
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…So you’re sitting there. Windows isn’t powerful Windows yet. Windows is this fledgling idea. We still had something called the 640K barrier. You couldn’t speak to more than 640K of memory. We didn’t break the 640K barrier until (I think) Windows 3. 1, which I want to say was 1991 or 1992. So you’re on this run, you see IBM is divorcing us. You don’t really have confidence in Windows yet. What are you feeling and what do you think the pass is possible?…
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