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- In article <m0tuqES-000GOKC@gwar.ardi.com>, mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter)
- declares...
- >
- >>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Abbott <jabbott@magicnet.net> writes:
- >
- > Jon> You might as well uninstall SoftRAM.. It's been found to do
- > Jon> absolutely nothing under Windows 95 except take up RAM.. =^(
- > Jon> Email me for more info on this if you want..
- >
- >Oh yeah, is that the one that Egghead pulled from their store shelves
- >after some guy figured out that all it does is copy memory back and
- >forth (in an incompetent manner, even) without doing *any*
- >compression? Apparently it just modifies one line in your win.ini to
- >increase the size of your swapfile or something, which makes it look
- >like you have more memory. At least, that's what I've read.
-
- Hehe. This isn't exactly germane, but the contrast between ARDI and the
- schmucks behind the SoftRAM fraud--and it is fraud--is worth noting.
- Check out
- http://ftp.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/win/feat/softram/index.html
- for a fantastic discussion of everything SoftRAM doesn't do, and the
- lawsuits you can join if you bought it.
-
- --
- Scott Shuchart
- shuchart@fas.harvard.edu
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