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oleorun@real.lemmy.fan to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 months ago

The great RAM doubler hoax of the 90s: How SoftRAM scammed over 650,000 PC users

www.xda-developers.com

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The great RAM doubler hoax of the 90s: How SoftRAM scammed over 650,000 PC users

www.xda-developers.com

oleorun@real.lemmy.fan to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • The Real King Gordon@lemmy.world
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    I remember this. Everyone was installing it. “Now I have 8 gigs of ram!” Weeee

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      *MB

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

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          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

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