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Remember SoftRAM 95? Compression app claimed to double memory did nothing at all
- oblib 5y agoI bought "Connectix's RAMdoubler" back in day and it worked for me. I was using a Mac PowerPC 6100 and trying to compile an "Apple Media Tool" project for an "Interactive CD_ROM" and it couldn't do it. I don't remember what I paid for it but it did work for that and saved my butt. I don't recall hearing about "SoftRAM 95" not working at all though. That's just vicious.
- Someone 5y agoFTA: “This crazy-sounding idea first appeared with Connectix's RAMdoubler in 1994, an add-on for Mac OS 7.6 – a slightly easier proposition as classic Mac OS didn't have true preemptive multitasking” I am not sure that’s technically correct. At some time, classic Mac OS did have preemptive multitasking (but even then, GUI processes ran cooperatively). http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.10/10.11/ThreadManager/index.html http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.10/10.11/Th... claims “System 7.0 or greater is required for the 680x0 version of the Thread Manager to operate. The power version of the Thread Manager requires system software for Power Macintosh platforms.” If that’s true, Mac OS 7.6 (or more precisely: Mac OS 7.6 with this Apple system extension that hacked pre-emptive threading into the cooperatively scheduled OS) had pre-emptive multitasking. It’s possible that RamDoubler didn’t work when that extension was installed, though.