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I have linux on a 120mb scsi drive John, and it takes more than 10mb, more like 50 with x-windows and a few basic utilities. As you said it does need at least 16mb to run any serious work well. But it does run well. > Microsoft helps subsidize PC dealers by increasing memory requirements There has been a standing bit of wit for years that suggests IBM and Intel could give away computers to generate memory sales. It is probably more the truth today that IBM and MS could give away computers to generate software sales, which is where the real money is now. But as to using an amiga with one meg off floppy, 2.1 and 3.1 won't leave as much of one meg of memory as 1.3 did so I'm unsure how much software would still be able to work. Probably most of it though. I can also _boot_ my 486dx2/66 off one Dos6.2 diskette. I can't however create a Dos 1.44 floppy that will boot and single handedly reload my software from the tapedrive the way my Amiga does from a 880K disk, It always grates on me to have to restore MsDos 6.2 to the harddrive and then install the PC tapedrive software before I can restore the rest of the backup from tape. Guess we are just spoiled, eh? I think it was Dave Haynie that said his definition of a serious computer was one that could format a floppy while also doing useful work, something PC's have only very recently managed to even try to do. But they are catching up, while the Amiga did not advance much after the introduction of the A2000/500. Even AGA was a late effort to catch back up when SVGA was no longer sufferable. Thanks Commodore, where ever you are, for delivering as little as possible as late as possible and may your golden parachutes crush you. Oklahoma City, OK