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The great RAM doubler hoax of the 90s: How SoftRAM scammed over 650,000 PC users (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

RAM Doubler for Mac actually did work as advertised though and this has probably been a contributing factor to the number of people falling for the scam.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

zram also works on modern Linux systems.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Good. As soon as I read the title, I thought of RAM Doubler and wondered if young me was a sucker for buying it!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Yes, I do remember this RAM compression software. It was like magic. When my mom installed it on our Mac I didn’t believe her at first until I hopped on and used the computer.