The section in which I work has been responsible for specifying purchase recommendations for sixteen years. In 1993, I recall that the minimum RAM recommendation was 4MB (Mac or PC), even for people buying lousy LCIIs. When Quadras arrived, the recommendation was 8MB. For first generation PowerMacs, the advice was 16MB (but you could just about live with 8MB).

2MB is insufficient to run System 7, so the likelihood of many such limited Macs being used in any work environment is slim. As Quadraman wrote, most Macs in active service in 1996 were well up to running OpenDoc.