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- From: robodude@deanwong.rad.jhu.edu (Zsolt Szabo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Doubling Memory
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 19:02:33 GMT
- Organization: The Dungeon
- Message-ID: <4dgso9$fk0@news.jhu.edu>
- References: <rdingem.445u@grafix.xs4all.nl> <4cqnv9$854@ngriffin.itc.gu.edu.au>
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- In article <4cqnv9$854@ngriffin.itc.gu.edu.au>,
- George Sanderson <aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au> wrote:
- >rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans) writes:
- >
- >: GS> No such product exists. "RamDoubler" of whatever it's called, is a
- >: GS> complete fake, designed to exploit the stupidity of anybody stupid
- >
- >:Wrong. The product you're referring to is called Softram if I'm
- >:correct, and it has nothing to do with RamDoubler, which is a Mac
- >:utility and DOES work as advertised; it's very popular. It nearly
- >:doubles your RAM at a slight expense of speed.
- >
- >Yes, you're right... I forgot the name of that PCwin95 joke program,
- >which was even exposed in Time magazine as a fake.
-
- TIME magazine? Since when have they been an authority for
- hardware/software? Anyway, the ram doubling software for PCs is not a
- fake; at least not the Win 3.1x version. It does in fact expand the
- memory that handles resources on a PC so that after loading it you can
- load twice as many copies of program X into Windows without it reporting
- "out of resources".
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