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The outside investigation of SoftRAM 95
- MattSayar 5y agoI was hoping there'd be a deeper analysis of an overall speed increase a real, functionally complete version of this program could do. But I assume if it was viable, it'd be universal by now. Fun read!
- timrobinson 5y agoModern operating systems do do memory compression as claimed by the original SoftRAM. In the case of Windows it was added in Windows 10. I wonder if it would ever have been economical, in performance terms, back in the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory_compression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory_compression https://riverar.github.io/insiderhubcontent/memory_compression.html https://riverar.github.io/insiderhubcontent/memory_compressi...