SoftRAM and SoftRAM95 were system software products released by Syncronys Softcorp in the mid-1990s that claimed to increase or even double the available random-access memory in Microsoft Windows without the need for a hardware upgrade, which is possible using memory compression. However, it was later alleged the SoftRAM95 program utilized only a stub compression function that was incomplete.
SoftRAM and SoftRAM95 were system software products released by Syncronys Softcorp in the mid-1990s that claimed to increase or even double the available random-access memory in Microsoft Windows without the need for a hardware upgrade, which is possible using memory compression. However, it was later alleged the SoftRAM95 program utilized only a stub compression function that was incomplete.
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