I ran it with 4MB for years. I could use it for programming(visual basic, djgpp), page design (pagemaker), office (lotus smartsuite), etc... It could play MP3s in the background without stutter once I bought a sound card. No, it wasn't perfect, but it ran better than the win10 I use at work with 16GB.
For games, I had to reboot to dos. Doom II ran with 4MB if you threw smartdrv out, except the very last level was more a kind of slide show because it tried to load all monster graphics at the same time.
For games, I had to reboot to dos. Doom II ran with 4MB if you threw smartdrv out, except the very last level was more a kind of slide show because it tried to load all monster graphics at the same time.