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Re: DOS vs 95



In article <m0tuqES-000GOKC@gwar.ardi.com>, mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) 
declares...
>
>>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Abbott <jabbott@magicnet.net> writes:
>
>    Jon> You might as well uninstall SoftRAM.. It's been found to do
>    Jon> absolutely nothing under Windows 95 except take up RAM.. =^(
>    Jon> Email me for more info on this if you want..
>
>Oh yeah, is that the one that Egghead pulled from their store shelves
>after some guy figured out that all it does is copy memory back and
>forth (in an incompetent manner, even) without doing *any*
>compression?  Apparently it just modifies one line in your win.ini to
>increase the size of your swapfile or something, which makes it look
>like you have more memory.  At least, that's what I've read.

Hehe.  This isn't exactly germane, but the contrast between ARDI and the 
schmucks behind the SoftRAM fraud--and it is fraud--is worth noting.  
Check out
	 http://ftp.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/win/feat/softram/index.html
for a fantastic discussion of everything SoftRAM doesn't do, and the 
lawsuits you can join if you bought it.

-- 
Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu



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