-=> On 02 Dec 95  03:19:43 Mike Bilow said to Don Peterson <=-

 MB> Don Peterson wrote in a message to All:

 DP> It's hard to believe the memory doubling program named
 DP> SoftRAM works. Has anyone on this board bought it?  Used it?
 DP> Knows someone who has?

 MB> It certainly doesn't work under OS/2!  There are well researched
 MB> assertions that SoftRAM is non-functional "placebo software."  For
 MB> more information, see URL
 MB> http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/win/feat/softram/index.html on the web.
 MB> I would have been tempted to consider your question off-topic in this
 MB> echo, but SoftRAM probably does as little under OS/2 as it does under
 MB> Windows, so I guess one could say that it is fully cross-platform.

I had a discussion with someone in which it was suggested it might be
possible to compress stuff being swapped. Not to save disk space, which
is a minor issue, but to reduce amount of data transfer, as it is slow.

This might be viable IMHO - what are the problems? Assuming it
was only used on non-critical systems (No plans to do this on my server :-)


 MB> Every programmer should make an attempt to look at that web page.

Lots of us don't have Internet cos we can't afford the phone bills. Local
calls are VERY far from free in Europe.


Andrew

... Your never alone with Schizophrenia
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