> So what side effects could I expect to see? On an AMD Duron 1 ghz box > with 512 ram, should I expect to see any type of slowdown? > > I once tried Java on a win98 box, P4 with 256 ram, and it became > almost unusable, but that was a few years back. On the same machine I > now have winXP and I think that I had Java in there on a previous > install (I reinstall that os every few months...). I don't remember > any issues with it under XP. > no slow down you may notice Java uses some memory but only if you are watching the processes
