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And macOS doesn't support Linux-style compressed RAM either, at least as far as I know.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/blockdev/...

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One search away and you can prove yourself wrong. In fact they have had it since 10.9.

Cool. I stopped using it in 10.6. Glad macOS has caught up.

Caught up with the 1990s when RAM and disk compression were popular on Macs and PCs.

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

Interestingly enough Stac was apparently co-founded by Nvidia/Stanford's Bill Dally. The story of them being "sherlocked" by MS-DOS 6.0 and successfully suing Microsoft is interesting as well.

That was before the current NS-based OS and so doesn't count

It does compress RAM, although I’m not sure if you mean something different here.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/

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