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- From: aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (George Sanderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Doubling Memory
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 06:33:29 GMT
- Organization: Groom Lake Testing Facility
- Message-ID: <4cfsbp$7g2@ngriffin.itc.gu.edu.au>
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- "Paul M. Bullock" <Paul@thx1138.demon.co.uk> writes:
-
- : I've just had a thought (scares me, that does). I've heard about
- :these RAM doublers used on PC's. The ones that compress data while
- :its in RAM.
-
- No such product exists. "RamDoubler" of whatever it's called, is a
- complete fake, designed to exploit the stupidity of anybody stupid
- enough in the first place to buy Win95.
-
- : I was wondering if it were possible to do a similar thing on the
- :Amiga using Disk Expander. If not into the Ram Disk then into a RAD
- :disk.
-
- Compressing something which is in RAM for speed reasons is an absolute
- waste of time. It would slow down any computer to a crawl.
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- Rule #9864 in Saving Humanity (tm): if you must use a Micro$oft product,
- make sure it's pirated.
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