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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] 31 points 3 weeks 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.

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[–] p1mrx 6 points 3 weeks ago

zram also works on modern Linux systems.

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