I have found Ram Doubler to be very unstable on OS's 7.5 and up, very hard to get external drives to show and many freezes, however on old System 6.08 and 7 Macs with low ram it was the only game in town I can't see what reason there is to use it today ram is below cheap now and it works. I have an old 575 with 4 Megs of ram and I turn on Doubler only when I open an old Quicken version for the financial calc. Otherwise hold down esc while booting and it will not load. And no freezes.
John -----Original Message----- From: Howard Katz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 18 May 2009 2:31 pm Subject: Re: RAM Doubler 9 issues On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: On May 18, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Fabian Fang wrote: > ?I've also read that RAM Doubler may have been incompatible with Mac > OS 9.2.1. I thought the need for RAM Doubler was eliminated in OS 9 by Apple's implementation of "virtual memory" in the Memory Control Panel? Not really.? IIRC, what Ram Doubler did was use a different virtual memory system as well as free up memory claimed by open programs but not being used at the moment.? The effect was that OS 9 would report, if not doubled ram available, more than you actually had installed in the machine (tho both figures were shown).? It made for a snappier system--worked great on my 520c.? One of the best purchases I made for that machine. Howard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
