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I mean you could just use this, right? https://downloadmoreram.com https://downloadmoreram.com
by malshe 4mo ago
I mean you could just use this, right?
https://downloadmoreram.com https://downloadmoreram.com
- ramijames 4mo agoWhen I was a kid software that would "double your RAM" was a thing. I remember thinking it was awesome, and at the same time feeling a huge sense of doubt that you could do that.
- msephton 4mo agoMacOS does memory compression as standard since 2013. Linux has it, and iirc even Windows has it since 10.
- hangonhn 4mo agoDidn't DOS have it too?
- duskwuff 4mo agoDefinitely not. DOS had disk compression utilities, but not RAM - there was no reasonable way to accomplish that at the time. You may be thinking of "memory manager" utilities like QEMM and EMM386 which tried to maximize the amount of conventional memory available to programs (i.e. below the 640KB boundary). These programs worked primarily by causing drivers and TSRs to run in upper memory - they didn't actually provide more memory.
- hangonhn 4mo agoOh right! I got disk compression and QEMM and EMM386 all mixed together in my now decades old memory (pun kind of intended) of DOS to produce that false recollection.
- alex_suzuki 4mo agoSo that was what 13yr old me was doing modifying himem.sys to get some stupid game to launch. :-)
- Calavar 4mo agoSoftRam. Raymond Chen wrote a great technical analysis on what it actually did: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=105897 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...
- Scoundreller 4mo agoI’m surprised the concept of drivespace/double space died off. Maybe most files self-compress well from their native app, but I’m sure it’s not universal. OSs don’t seem to offer a prompt to compress relatively unused files and transparently uncompressed them on-demand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace
- drdaeman 4mo agoIt did not, for example my /home is a btfrs mounted with compress=zstd:3 And some machines I’ve used, had swap on zram…
- hahahaa 4mo agoThis exists for LLMs it is quantization.
- wolvoleo 4mo agoAI has kinda already gone through that phase, with quantisation you can effectively double your ram with almost no negative effects by going from fp16 to int8.
- scientism 4mo agoSimilar idea to the "turbo" button in some old pentiums?