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The great RAM doubler hoax of the 90s: How SoftRAM scammed over 650,000 PC users (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 6 days ago by oleorun@real.lemmy.fan to c/retrocomputing

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[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 32 points 6 days 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.

[–] General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days 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.

[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

zram also works on modern Linux systems.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 6 points 6 days 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!