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In article <816276174.6301@gategart.demon.co.uk>
           chris@gategart.demon.co.uk "Chris Wilson" writes:

>There has been some discussion on the NT groups re these apps, non of
>which are written specifically for NT.The consensus, as far as I recall,
>is that the NT OS will not allow RAM doublers to work, as they use
>illegal calls.

Yup. The whole kernel architecture is different !


>    Second consesus was there is <no> substitute for the real thing...

I can't agree with with that. The issue is

  'what is the most cost effective way of doing a job ?'.

If for a job with some level of memory requirement, it can be done within
the required time by spending x on RAM, or y on software that makes better
use of a smaller amount of RAM, I can see justification.

If a 30 quid add on to the OS buys you the same performance lift as say
the equivalent of 4 meg of extra RAM, it's got to be a good technology.

Apart from that, on any VM system,if you can compress data before swapping,
that gets you less disk IO => more speed + more VM space.

It's got to be a good thing, and the sooner it becomes a standard OS
feature the better.

I'm not discounting the benefit of good hardware, but even on this P133
with 32 meg of RAM and 4 gig of 7200 RPM SCSI drive, less swap disk access
would be good.  Think a machine that big never swaps ?  Think again :) !
People wouldn't buy them that big if they didn't have programs to exercise
them !

The availability of these RAM compressing apps has to be one of the few
areas where crap-Windows can beat Warp or NT.

How could RAM or swap compressing software ever be a disadvantage ?

After all, it ought not to do any compressing until the RAM is so full
that the options are compressing or disk IO.

-- 
John Beardmore