> It's more complex software that has to run on more types of hardware.
>
> More code = more memory required.

Also at least on the Acorn/RiscOS a lot of the OS code was written in 
assembler. IME when I used a C compiler on that platform it sucked huge 
amounts of RAM and generated equally huge files, so much in fact that I 
needed to run it under a very buggy command-line-only virtual memory 
manager (I only had 4MB RAM and it needed 8MB). This may have also 
contributed to the larger RAM requirements of Linux.

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