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alwillisyesterday at 2:31 AM1 replyview on HN

RAM Doubler was a third-party application in the days when a top-of-the-line Mac had 128MB of RAM, with a 40Mhz processor. The level 2 cache was 256 bytes.

That's not in the same universe as hardware compression on a 6-core, 64-bit ARM processor with cores that can run at 4GHz.


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st3fanyesterday at 11:30 AM

That is why it is an old trick

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