Webbers Corner

I was reading through 'Process Overload' chapter on a 'Computer Hardware and Networking' book and was puzzled at what has been wrote there. It was quoted there that, theoritically speaking, upto 256 Internet Explorer applications (iexplore.exe process) can be run at any given point of time. Does any one know the significance behing this '256'?

However, practically when I tried to open more than 25 IEs, my systems crashes Lol My system is of 512 MB RAM and 80GB.

does the book specify a specification of computer they are using?

it is likely to do with the ram as 256 could divide into 256mb, 512mb, 1gb, 2gb ram so dependant on the ram and the amount of ram required by IE.  So it is probably the relation/

This would never happen in real life as the computer still has to run ever other process on your computer.

the thing is, you can have multipal windows of the same application such as IE, but there is still only one iexplorer.exe process.