It's amazing how breakthroughs in the past now seem trivial. Everything has gotten so much easier/cheaper. A hobbyist can do what took quite a bit of funding back in the 80s/90s.

The frame buffering is a physical feature of the CCD. It actually has twice the number of lines, but half of them are behind a mask so they will never be exposed. When the exposure ends, it rapidly shifts the accumulated electrons from the exposed lines into the area with unexposed lines. From there, they can be read out by the ADC while another exposure is in progress.

When your product becomes the actual graphical icon for some particular class of things, I guess you are totally justified in calling it "iconic."

RAM extending software for Windows was a joke.

Back in the pre OS X days, you had to pre allocate a block memory that could be used by each app. You set how much memory could be used for an app in its Get Info dialog. Since each block was assigned at launch, you could have plenty of memory available, but as you launched and quit apps, your memory could be “fragmented” so the next app that was launched didn’t have enough contiguous memory.

You would have to quit and relaunch apps so you had enough continuous memory.

The second issue was that you needed to have as much hard drive space available as you wanted to use for swap. For instance, I had 10MB RAM on my old LCII with an 80MB hard drive. If I wanted to have 15 Mb of “virtual memory” that took up 15MB of my hard drive the minute I configured it.

RAM Doubler on the Mac replaced the built in memory management system with a more traditional one. Instead of pre-allocating Photoshop for instance 4MB of RAM you could preallocate more memory and RAM Doubler would make it seem contiguous.

On another note, after the PPC Macs came out, RAM Doubler was bundled with Speed Doubler that replaced the built in 68K emulator with a much faster one.