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

Yes, I do remember this RAM compression software. It was like magic. When my mom installed it on our Mac I didn’t believe her at first until I hopped on and used the computer.

Good. As soon as I read the title, I thought of RAM Doubler and wondered if young me was a sucker for buying it!

zram also works on modern Linux systems.

That reminded me of one of my all-time favorite Daily WTF articles:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/ITAPPMONROBOT

Came into the thread just looking for that and was not disappointed!

There was DoubleSpace, which compressed your files in DOS so you could allocate more memory to programs that needed it. It's interesting that when trying to run old games on modern hardware sometimes there isn't enough conventional memory because computing shifted into RAM based systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace?useskin=vector