![]() This crazy-sounding idea first appeared with Connectix's RAMdoubler in 1994, an add-on for Mac OS 7.6 – a slightly easier proposition as classic Mac OS didn't have true preemptive multitasking. ![]() What SoftRAM 95 claimed to do was software memory compression – on-the-fly compressing data in RAM so that your OS has more fast storage available than without the software. There are few lessons about modern software in there as well. ![]() ![]() One of the most consistently interesting and entertaining Microsoft blogs, Raymond Chen's Old New Thing, recently covered the dissection of a best-selling bit of software for Windows 95 – SoftRAM 95.
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