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Thank you for the great answer. This really cleared thing up.
So basically the decompressed image size does not even need to fit
into RAM but can be stored in virtual memory?

Yes, but the more RAM you have the faster things will be. An older PC like
that will no doubt have a slower hard drive, so swapping an image between
RAM and hard drive will be slow and jumpy. Best thing is to try it and see -
you might be able to pick up a little more memory on ebay or from the back
of a drawer somewhere, but just try it out first.