Running with less memory may cause disk swapping which has a severe effect on performance. At least 48 megabytes of RAM is recommended for applets running within a browser using the Java Plug-in. A Pentium 166MHz or faster processor with at least 32 megabytes of physical RAM is required to run graphically based applications. Hardware - Intel and 100% compatible processors are supported. For more details, see the troubleshooting note about Windows Installer 2.0. This installation requires Windows Installer 2.0 to be on your machine, or an Internet connection for it to be automatically downloaded. Java 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition Version 1.4.2 Install Notes - Windows System Requirements Software
