XP is based on the Nt kernal which is no where in the same ball park in design as 
Win 9x.  It is a massive operating system as compared to Win 9X and as such needs 
way more memory and physical resources to run.  It is huge in it's requirements as 
opposed to Win 9X, parts of it can not be swapped out of memory and run as can win 
9X.   It has security and a multi level layered design that just takes more resources 
and speed to run.  It's complicated but as experienced programmers will tell you, 
there are reasons that it needs so much more hardware, memory, speed and resources 
to run effectively.  Then besides what the operating system needs, you have the needs 
of all the programs, data and background processes to run.  It all takes even more 
memory hence, the need for a minimum RAM spec if you want to have any kind of stability 
and performance at all...







On Monday, November 13, 2006 at 7:54 am, f g wrote:

>Thanks CK.  I dont see why Microsoft would specify a minimum of 128MB to run XP. 

>  

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