If 128M is indeed the recommendation, it's not
just for
the OS, it's a recommended amount - and nothing more.
It may be there just to sell memory.
The thing is, Microsoft's memory recommendations tend to be the minimum the
OS will function correctly. Remember the minimum requirements for win95 were
a 386sx16 and 4 megs of ram. I'm told it will *boot* in that, if you're
patient. But do useful work? Ha.
For a while I had a parallel port webcam running of a 386sx20 with 4MB
of RAM and it ran Windows 95. While it was slow it did get the job
done. The machine has since been upgraded to a 486DX25 . The 386 would
manage to grab a frame every 30 seconds, compress it into a JPG and
upload it to a webserver. The 486 manages every 10 seconds. Still for
a while the 386 was just about being useful. A note to anyone else
trying this, use the first release of Windows 95, don't event think
about Windows 98.
Matthew Buckett
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