Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 CA> 256 seems enough for my brother's W98SE install.

 WC>  98 will install on an NEC Pentium 180 with  16 meg  RAM, I know 
 WC> this because initially having trouble installing on the H.P. I 
 WC> swapped out drives and installed it on the NEC.

The 98 box here only has 16M in it.  I gave it its own 64M swap partition
on a different spindle than the rest of the stuff (on what was the original
drive) and it seems to do okay.

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