> I can still buy 16 MB SIMM strips for 84 dollars at Hi-Tech USA.
> Cash Only. Just for the record, I hate shopping there. A number
> of smaller computer parts stores are offer 16 MB strips at under $90
The prices still need to trickle down. The Chip Merchant is a large
volume dealer whose prices change daily, the smaller mom&pop stores
still have inventory that they bought on the cheap. Unless the trend
changes, their prices are going to go up too.
> It's just my opinion and I'm no expert, but if your running
> windows95, why do you need QEMM?
Plenty of DOS games still require a lot of free memory under 640k,
qemm provides this both in a DOS box and outside of win95 completely.
> I use Ram DOubler on my Mac at work and have SOftRam at home, but
> doesn't eaither one of these programs slow down the computer
> considerable because it is using the HD as a memmory cache and
> swaps files as necessary...
Last I heard, the SoftRAM guys had to withdraw their product because
it was, effectively, a hoax, it didn't do any good under win95.
Quarterdeck's product, MagnaRAM97, does work but not in the manner
that you describe. Rather than swapping to disk (win95 does that
on its own) it provides better memory management than win95 does
natively. Among other things, MagnaRAM looks for "holes" in available
memory, left there by programs that allocated small pieces of memory
and then exited or freed them. MagnaRAM consolidates those small
holes into larger holes that can be more efficiently used by other
win95 programs.
Additionally, MagnaRAM97 has this "turboload" feature that learns the
way programs load and and speeds the process up, making programs start
faster.
MagnaRAM does other related things, but those are the two basic
features. I find them both useful on my machine where I already
have 96 Meg of RAM (I bought at the very lowest price, right before
the recent increase, now if I could only be so lucky when buying
stock.) |
