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[Jan Löwe]

"640 k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981
(Apparently, Bill never said that but it illustrates our lack of ability 
to imagine the future so famously)
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On 21/05/2018 16:43, Ardan Patwardhan wrote:
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