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Re:Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction ... by bigiain on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:11PM (#31818985)
Ahhh, but they compress the memory!

Anyone else remember Ram Doubler for pre OSX Macs?

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Re:Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction ... by tambourine_man on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:50PM (#31819638)
Oh yes. Mac OS X started doing that in Mavericks as well
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Re:Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:44AM (#31820321)
Darwin does it, NT does it, and Linux can do it (I use swap on zram, there's also zswap). Nice to see it widely (if quietly) used:)
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Re:Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction ... by mpweiher on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:27PM (#31825807)
IBM once had a main-memory interface that did LZW compression (so compressing between L2 and main memory).
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