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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 96 02:58:30 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: Doubling Memory
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.445u@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 04 Jan 96 George Sanderson wrote to All:
-
- GS> From: aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (George Sanderson)
-
- GS> "Paul M. Bullock" <Paul@thx1138.demon.co.uk> writes:
-
- GS> :these RAM doublers used on PC's. The ones that compress data while
- GS> its in RAM.
-
- 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.
-
- > : 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
-
- GS> Compressing something which is in RAM for speed reasons is an absolute
- GS> waste of time. It would slow down any computer to a crawl.
-
- Wrong again. RamDoubler slows an '030 Mac down only a bit; it's
- very usable.
-
- (I was wondering myself when some clever programmer would do something
- like it on the Amiga using the XPK compession libs.)
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
-
- PS. No, you can't use it on Shapeshifter - it uses the MMU for one
- thing.
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