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- From: aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (George Sanderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Doubling Memory
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 09:26:01 GMT
- Organization: Groom Lake Testing Facility
- Message-ID: <4cqnv9$854@ngriffin.itc.gu.edu.au>
- References: <rdingem.445u@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans) writes:
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- : 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.
-
- : 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.
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- RamDoubler works fairly well on a Mac, however (for everybody else reading),
- it does not compress stuff. It is merely a form of virtual memory.
- (btw, not everything works with RamDoubler).
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