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- From: ecsjols@klecsd.ericsson.se (Joakim Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Doubling Memory
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:17:54 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
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- On Thu, 18 Jan 96 13:10:00 +0100, paul@serena.iaehv.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
- wrote:
-
- >On Tue, 16 Jan 96, Zsolt Szabo wrote the following:
- >
- >> 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".
- >
- >There where two of these programs. The 2nd one indeed seems to work. The
- >1st one just didn't do anything. There was a segment on it in the German
- >Computer Club. (And these people generally knwo what they talk about) It
- >also got tested by C't (Very good hw mag) who cam to the same conclusion.
- >And this program had sold like the proverbial hotcakes. :-)
-
- If I'm not misstaken, they were sued for saying that the program didn't do
- anything, they the disassemled the program and it was in fact the standard
- windows memoryhandler recoded so that it would report 3% more free
- systemresources than the original... They had also put 40Kb of zeroes into
- the program to make it bigger than the original...
-
- /Joakim Olsen (ecsjols@klecsd.ericsson.se)
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