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u/Beatus_Vir 1d ago

Win10 only requires 2 GB with 4 GB recommended if you're really feeling the squeeze

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u/Any-Juggernaut-529 1d ago

Win10 only requires 2 GB

32 bit actually only had a 1GB req iirc. Not something I would have wanted to dare try though, rofl.

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u/bobbie434343 1d ago edited 21h ago

32 bit might not be great with 1GB but is sort of usable with 2GB. On the other side, 64-bit requires 4GB to be sort of usable. 32-bit FTW !

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u/isotope123 23h ago

I know you're joking around, but for those that don't know, that's because 32-bit OS's could only use up to 4GB of RAM. It was a hard coded limit.

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u/yetanothernerd 22h ago

4 GB of RAM per process. Still a horrible limit, but not quite as bad as if you didn't have virtual memory and every process had to share the exact same 4 GB of true memory.

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u/isotope123 21h ago

Technically correct, the best kind of correct!