LINUX on Windows 98

[Bart Silverstrim]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Jimmy Montague wrote:
>> Official MS system minimum requirements for Win98* include
>> 355 mb hdd space
>> 16 mb system RAM
>> 486 DX2/66 processor
>>
>> I was with Win98 from the rollout. It ran real shitty in 16 megs of RAM,
>> but it ran. It ran a lot better in 32 megs and better still in 64. If
>> you had Win98 in 256 megs of RAM, you were drivin' a Cadillac. 
>>
>> *Source is Windows 98 Resource Kit from MS Press.
>>
>> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 21:53 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>>   
>>> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 05:43 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>     
>>>>     How much RAM does a 1997 (11 year old!) computer have? Windows 98 
>>>> was made to run with 100 KB of RAM.
>>>>       
>>> No it was not. Where do you *get* this stuff?
>>>
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182751
>>>
>>> K.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>   
>     Thank you Jimmy. I did recall it takes a tiny amount of RAM to run.

I think there's a significant difference between a 100k and 16 meg ;-)