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If MS gets the absolute minium hardware requirements of 10 to say as low as those of 7 until 2020/2021 there should be no problem. In theory that would mean running with up to 11 year old hardware (that came stock with win 7 in 2009). As of now the minimum hardware requirements mostly match - 1 gb or ram for 32 bit, 2 gb for 64 bit, though windows 7 already slowed to a croll on < 2gb in most cases.
Actually I hear Win10 doesn't work really well on < 3GB of RAM, and I can confirm that just firing up my system + opening a browser and not much else: uses 2.3 GB out of 8GB.
I mean they do not have a hardcoded limit, you can run it on 512MB if you want, but it'll be unusable due to constant Swap space usage.