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		gaius on April 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The death of optimizing compilers [pdf] The irony being that Jobs himself limited the memory in the original Mac, so it would have to go to disk more often!

jedrek on April 18, 2015 [–]

Source?

gaius on April 18, 2015 | [–]

Its a fairly well known story. The engineers ignored him and built in capability for 512k anyway.

http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-devices/steve-j...

He also hated fans and expansion slots.

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