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by timrobinson 1686 days ago
Modern operating systems do do memory compression as claimed by the original SoftRAM. In the case of Windows it was added in Windows 10. I wonder if it would ever have been economical, in performance terms, back in the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory_compression

https://riverar.github.io/insiderhubcontent/memory_compressi...