linux's recomended may only be 16mb
but no one in there right mind is going to run X with only 16mb of ram....

and you will see an improvement in rendering and such switching to w2k 
since NT is a true pre-emptive multi-tasking system, where as win98 is only 
cooporative....


war### [at] tagpovrayorg (Warp) wrote in <3958d119@news.povray.org>:

>In povray.windows Halbert <hha### [at] capitalnet> wrote:
>: I think I have noticed an improvement to all my 3d applications like
>: Povray, MegaPov, and the swarm off modeling tools I've been using. W2k
>: is very stable, me likey very much.
>
>  Still it requires a lot more resources than should be reasonable.
>  It seems that microsoft thinks "the higher the stability, the more
>  memory 
>and other resources needs to be used" when it's more or less the other
>way around. IIRC the recommended amount of memory for Win2k is 128MB
>while the recommended amount of memory for Linux is something like 16MB.
>

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