Two Stop Bits | SoftRAM95: “False and Misleading” (1996)

Darkstar 190 days ago
I remember back in 1995 when the German magazine c't published an in-depth analysis showing that SoftRAM did not work at all.
That was way before Mark did the analysis for DrDobbs. However I guess since it was in German, the rest of the world didn't really notice...
Lammy 190 days ago
Relevant Old New Thing: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...
Compare to Connectix's RAM Doubler for Mac which was not only legit but is so good that it's often worth installing even with compression disabled:
https://macintoshgarden.org/search/node/connectix%20ram%20do...
https://tidbits.com/1996/10/28/ram-doubler-2/
- bmonkey325 190 days ago
  The Mac was legit, but windows was always snake oil. Honestly, I think that the working set on windows is too dynamic for it to matter even if it did compress something.