> Win95 ran very comfortably on 64MB (with an M) of memory and a 4GB disk.
I ran it on 8mb ram / 850mb disk. Did upgrade to 16mb ram and the performance boost was palpable, but, again, used it at 8mb for a while. Also a fresh install took up a whooping 50mb!
Right, hence the "very comfortably". That wasn't min specs, that was a very happy Win95 system.
> Also a fresh install took up a whooping 50mb
I do wonder WTF modern Windows is doing with tens of GB of disk space, not even counting swap & such. Seems like it jumped up dramatically after WinXP—even the otherwise-kinda-decent Win7 used crazy amounts of disk. "They started including a bunch of drivers" bullshit, Linux has always included loads of drivers with most default installations and it's so much smaller that just calling it "smaller" doesn't do the difference justice, plus there are surely a lot of those that could easily be made a download or optional default-off package (extremely niche or very old hardware).
I ran it on 8mb ram / 850mb disk. Did upgrade to 16mb ram and the performance boost was palpable, but, again, used it at 8mb for a while. Also a fresh install took up a whooping 50mb!