> because the idea of increasing memory by software seemed so improbable DoubleSpace/DriveSpace was a thing back then, so no, idea was fine. More so, a similar

> because the idea of increasing memory by software seemed so improbable DoubleSpace/DriveSpace was a thing back then, so no, idea was fine. More so, a similar product made by a... competent team actually worked[0] > It's interesting that it was apparently doing something (compressing memory pages) that made sense and was potentially useful even if poor implementation made it unstable. Poor implementation made it not unstable, it made it returning wrong data. If the thread safety were implemented then it wouldn't have anything positive but at least it wouldn't crash, even in absence of a compression facilities. Alas... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35414045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35414045