TO THOSE FEW SOULS ON the planet who haven't yet wrestled with giant computer-operating systems like Microsoft's Windows 95, memory compression probably sounds like something that starts to set in around the fourth margarita. To the rest of the computer-using public, though, it sounds like a dream come true. Imagine: instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars to feed your system's insatiable appetite for memory, you simply run a $30 program that squeezes the necessary storage space out of your existing chips, instantly increasing their effective capacity by a factor of two or more.
It was on the promise of such...
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