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I mean you could just use this, right? https://downloadmoreram.com https://downloadmoreram.com
by malshe 2mo ago
I mean you could just use this, right?
https://downloadmoreram.com https://downloadmoreram.com
- ramijames 2mo 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 2mo agoMacOS does memory compression as standard since 2013. Linux has it, and iirc even Windows has it since 10.
- hangonhn 2mo agoDidn't DOS have it too?
- duskwuff 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo agoSo that was what 13yr old me was doing modifying himem.sys to get some stupid game to launch. :-)
- Calavar 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo agoThis exists for LLMs it is quantization.
- wolvoleo 2mo 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 2mo agoSimilar idea to the "turbo" button in some old pentiums?