96Mb minimum RAM required!?
Surely this is a misprint.
OS3.9 can boot in 2Mb, why does OS4.1 require nearly 50 times as much!?
If I wanted to run bloatware I wouldn't use an Amiga.
OS3.9 lists 6MB of Fast RAM in its requirements... Still a lot less, but 16 times less, not 50... As has been said before, there's a lot more involved in OS4 - it's made to be used at high resolution in truecolour modes, it has things like the TCP/IP, USB support and the likes running from boot, and things like the the 68k emulation module and a lot of the hardware extraction stuff all takes up memory. That's what it takes to add modern features - why else would you use OS4 if OS3.9's features are all you need?