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Ah the good old days, with "in DoubleSpace nobody can hear you scream" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace) Back
by 8fingerlouie 8y ago
Ah the good old days, with "in DoubleSpace nobody can hear you scream" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace)
Back then we did it because RAM was expensive, and there was rarely enough.
Today we use it because RAM is plentiful, and swapping to RAM is much faster than swapping to disk.