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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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