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Readers Digest Condensed Movies (1995).

Found at the head of It's a Mad World.

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RAM Doubler MacWorld - January 1996

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From Connectix's Wikipedia page [link]:

Connectix Corporation was a software and hardware company that released innovative products that were either made obsolete as Apple Computer incorporated the ideas into system software, or were sold to other companies once they become popular. Formed in October 1988.

Key people: Jon Garber, Bonnie Fought, Roy McDonald, Eric Traut, and Jorg Brown.

Products: Virtual, MODE32, Optima, MAXIMA, RAM Doubler, Speed Doubler, QuickCam, DoubleTalk, Virtual Game Station, Virtual PC, and Virtual Server.

Parent company: Microsoft Corporation.

Former company website for Connectix: Wayback Archive Machine

From Ram Doubler's Apple Wiki page [link]:

RAM Doubler was a memory compression utility developed by Connectix for classic Mac OS and Windows. Compressed less-used memory contents of background applications, and recovered free memory for use by the foreground application. Only when all free physical memory was occupied, would it start writing swap files to disk, like virtual memory.

Version 1.0 debuted for Mac users in January 1994 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. At least a Motorola 68030 processor (or a 68020 paired with a 68851 PMMU) was required to enable its memory management routines which doubled the amount of available memory over what was physically installed. The demand was driven by a worldwide spike in already high RAM prices driven by a factory fire in Japan.

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