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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] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I remember this. Everyone was installing it. “Now I have 8 gigs of ram!” Weeee

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

*MB

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

O yeah. How quickly I fogor. 16 whole megs of ram? I’ll never need that much!

[–] Willy 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah it was crazy how much it grew for a while and then about 15 years ago it stopped at 32gigs and still seems stuck there