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Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space. (raduzaharia.medium.com)
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[–] sramder@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Between this and RAMDOUBLER my PC was ~~unstable~~ unstoppable! ;-)

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then the Internet happened and we could freely download as much ram as we wanted to!

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 points 1 year ago

I remember there was one program that claimed it would update the microcode on your CPU to allow you to basically update your CPU for free to a newer type of processor, for example making your 486 operate like a pentium pro.

Entirely fake, but given the miracles of the time it seemed plausible.