From: Mike N. 

On Fri, 20 May 2005 00:37:51 -0700, Ellen K.  wrote:

>You gotta be kidding.  Our ILOG (a Java-based rules engine) instructor
>apologized for the slow load of the IDE on his demo machine by saying he
>only had 512 MB of RAM.

  Win 98-class machines are ill suited to anything in the code bloat class
of either Java or .NET.  Generally the working set for .NET 'feels larger'
than Java for small applications - although I haven't measured it.

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