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Many programs use as much RAM as they can get a hold of and if they have been well programmed they relinquish hold on the memory addresses they do not absolutely need when some other program does need it.

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It Depends, Different versions of operating systems uses different amounts of ram,example if you got a Windows computer and it was windows 98 it would use 2mb of ram but if you got a windows xp it would use 128mb of ram to run.if you were to say out of all well known operating systems and versions hear is a small list:Order small amount of ram required to largestWindows 98Windows 2000Windows XPLinux (Ubuntu)Windows Vistathis is only a basic list so it doesn't have any mac Os's and it doesn't contain all Os'sFrom David.m


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