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Ram doublers of the mid-90s were usually expensive hype. The most famous case is that of SoftRam which didn’t even try to do anything but just reported fake num
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago
Ram doublers of the mid-90s were usually expensive hype. The most famous case is that of SoftRam which didn’t even try to do anything but just reported fake numbers. It was called placebo ware by some magazines. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM
- scarface74 8y agoRAM Doublers for Windows were expensive hype. Because of the way that classic MacOS (mis)managed memory, you (as in the user) had to specify how much memory was allocated to each program before you ran it and the memory had to be contiguous. It was easy to end up in a situation where you had plenty of free RAM but it was fragmented and you had to quit programs to free up enough RAM. RAM Doubler for the Mac helped alleviate that by “doubling” the amount of RAM the system saw and then managing the memory by a combination of allocating memory dynamically in the “System” partition and compressing memory. Another benefit of RAM Doubler for the PPC was that it could enable virtual memory (ie the modern nomenclature not just “disk swapping”) without allocating as much space on the disk.