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To: george wood who wrote (25140)	2/1/2002 9:40:27 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) of 110653

XP loves RAM. I upgraded an old DELL Pentium III system that had 256M of RAM and adding another 256M made a noticeable difference in performance (I run lots of concurrent programs). MSFT claims 128M as a minimum XP requirement but that's only for a real basic e-mail and web browsing machine. Depending on what you're doing I'd consider 256M a minimal configuration. Memory is cheap so there's no reason to skimp. Previous versions of Windows really didn't use RAM effectively since there were some parts of Windows (various GUI heaps, etc.) that were of fixed size so you could always "run out of memory" no matter how much you had on the machine. XP really does use every MB you give it.

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