What are the Win98se memory requirements?

[fastman]

Would like to put it on an older laptop.

 

[Colt45]

32mb i think

but i had it running on a 486 66mhz with 16mb, but if your real short on memory you're probably better off with win95 b or c


edit: woops! right from M$

 

[TwilightZone77]

Officially, Win98 requirements are 16MB, 486DX/66. It would be less stressful on the processor and memory, however, if you used Win95. It only needs 4MB, 386DX. Would take up much less space too, max of around 84mb for win95, up to 355MB for win98.

 

[Lord Evermore]

That article specifically refers to the original Win98 only, though I don't think the specs changed too much with SE. (MS doesn't seem to want to differentiate between the two.)

To run a USEFUL system with Win98SE, at least 32MB would be good, 64 even better. Though Win9x's memory management isn't as good as NT, it can still benefit from increasing memory that much, and even 128 can give a good boost. Beyond that isn't extremely useful, but if you have memory lying about, it doesn't hurt. (Up to 512MB. Beyond that you have to do some tweaking to make it work properly.)