-> Well the original Win 98 uses only a maximum of 64 Meg anyway
-> and with the ATI Mach Pro onboard video clone using motherboard RAM
-> up to a maximum of 32 meg of RAM the 96 Meg that came with the machine
-> was all it could actually use in that OS.
-> Don't know about 98SE.
-> I installed 256 Meg of RAM for the Knoppix installation.

 I don't recall that limitation for Win98. But Win98Se can use 512 Meg
but much over 256 is overkill unless you really have a lot of programs
open at the same time. In the Win98 day one needed to go to WinNT which
could effectively use more then  512 Meg
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