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XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM
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kdawson
on Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:55 AM
from the golden-hourglass dept.
from the golden-hourglass dept.
swehack writes "The guys over at winhistory.de managed to get their Windows XP Professional running on a very minimal box: an Intel Pentium clocked down to 8 MHz with 20 MB of RAM. (The installer won't work with less than 64 MB, but after installing you can remove memory.) The link has plenty of pictures of their progress in achieving this dubious milestone. They deserve a Golden Hourglass award for 'extreme waste of time.' What obscure hardware configurations have you managed to get Windows running on?"
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Imagine..... (Score:4, Funny)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Re:Imagine..... (Score:5, Funny)
I dunno... Gentoo has been around for a long time... just welcoming them now?
(I run Gentoo)
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Re:Imagine..... (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Imagine..... (Score:5, Informative)
AFAICT, in
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Re: (Score:3, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia [wikipedia.org]
What I don't get is, how come the entire planet seems to be packed with people who suffer from Acute Sparetime Overload Disorder?
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So, were's the license then? (Score:5, Funny)
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My Hardware (Score:5, Funny)
AMD Athlon 3000+ with 1 GB of RAM. A miracle... I know... and STILL I have to reinstall it every couple of months!!
Re:My Hardware (Score:4, Interesting)
I had a local dialup account. He had some old computer parts:
1. Low end VGA monitor
2. VGA card capable of 16 colors at 640x480
3. 2 Megs of Ram
4. 20 Meg Hard Drive
5. 1200 baud modem
6. 1.2m floppy dirve
7. A 386-SX motherboard with a lowend 16hmz CPU
On this sweet box, I was able to install a striped down DOS 6.22, a bare install of Windows 3.11, trumpet winsock (1.x series I belive), and the Opera Web Browser (3.x) series.
I had to practically perform a seance to get MEMMAKER to give the MGA adapter memory over for use to bump the DOS 640k limit.
It was painful, but I was able to get a graphic dial up connection at 1200 baud, 16 color 640x480 resolution and show my friend this brave new world of the internet.
Of course this system operated with the rock soild reliability we have all come to know and trust from Mircosoft.
The sad thing is. It probably took less time to build this box AND install all the software than it takes to do a VISTA install nowdays.
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Yes but does it run (Score:5, Funny)
Not too long ago... (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't think we ever heard back from them.
Re:Not too long ago... (Score:5, Funny)
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Reminds me of the time I compiled Gentoo on a 286 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reminds me of the time I compiled Gentoo on a 2 (Score:4, Insightful)
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Cruel. (Score:4, Funny)
Just like 'enemy combatants' (Score:5, Funny)
Sadly, computers don't have rights, so moral arguments aside, I'm afraid it's quite legal to run Windows on them.
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Re:Just not legal (Score:4, Funny)
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Let's try a different challenge... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let's try a different challenge... (Score:4, Funny)
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They constantly upgrade their hardware (as soon as warrenty expires on the hardeware, they start selling it, auction style, for the book value of $1.00). Yet they still run windows 3.11. Eventhough that Microsoft told them that they will no longer support it. They simply think that it works fine for filling spreadshe
Re:Let's try a different challenge... (Score:4, Interesting)
And I'm curious as to which Windows 3.11 system it is that can run Oracle? Or do they run a newer version of Windows (or heaven forbid, gasp, Unix) for it? In which case, what happened to all that "glitz and glam" that they so vehemently shunned?
I'm not buying it.
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I already did that (Score:3, Funny)
I've originally planned to use it as a recovery disk for systems that won't boot. But I've since found a much better use for it: pranks. There's nothing like watching someone jump when Windows 3 boots on their brand new Dell.
dosbox does that (Score:4, Interesting)
You can run win 3.1 on dosbox. I imagine there's a 64 bit port in Debian and elsewhere. With a fast enough machine, it should be about as quick as it ever was. It's kind of slow on a 1GHz class 32bit cpu.
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Re:Hmph... (Score:4, Informative)
When the cpu first boots though, it's running in 16-bit real mode.
Tom
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Re:Hmph... (Score:5, Interesting)
(Microsoft Great Plains version 9 if anyone cares)
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It's all about the Pentiums! (Score:5, Funny)
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So..... (Score:5, Funny)
=)
Obligatory... (Score:5, Funny)
Mac? (Score:5, Funny)
iMac with an Intel Core Duo 2?
Heh... Not bad... (Score:4, Interesting)
and still "run". I had this old narfy 386sx-16 "laptop" with 16Mb of RAM and 120Mb of HD. I installed
it with compression out of the gate and the thing just went in there. It wasn't happy with me, but
it was usable for very small values of "usable" and it ran stuff like Delphi if you were patient for
very large values of "patient" as it swap-thrashed itself to death doing what I asked of it.
It still worked. I was impressed. Wasn't USEFUL, mind.
This falls under the same category.
P120 Laptop (Score:4, Informative)
Microsoft dropped support for the Tecra's Chips&Technologies video chipset, so I used the driver from Win2K; also didn't support acceleration at 24-bit (worked but with pretty slow screen drawing) so set it to 16-bit color, worked great.
Machine has a CDROM but BIOS won't boot from it so I had to boot the WinXP install floppies which you have to download from Microsoft; different set of disks for XP Pro and XP Home.
Not going to win any speed records, but quite useable.
Hmmm (Score:4, Insightful)
ZzzZz.
Think again (Score:5, Funny)
Uh... I don't think they'd appreciate that - they probably see plenty of hourglasses already.
Har. (Score:3, Interesting)
In 8MB.
It worked...
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BMO
Gotta love it... (Score:5, Funny)
Worst I've seen (Score:5, Funny)
After 30 minutes I'm looking at the default windows XP desktop. Immediately I know this is an illegal install, as the system had no sticker on it, and it looked too old to have had WinXP reasonably on it. I decide to see what service pack she's running, so I right click on my computer, click properties...and almost crap my pants. The system was running on a Cyrix M5 with 48MB of RAM. There were no service packs installed. She had about 30 worms installed and running on her system.
Sometimes, late at night, I wake up in a cold sweat thinking about the horror of such a system.
Heh... (Score:3, Funny)
They weren't by any chance hosting their website on that box too were they?
apparently that system pulls double duty... (Score:3, Funny)
n00bs (Score:3, Funny)
Pffft (Score:5, Funny)
Then I got Windows CE running on an ancient Mayan claendar.
Then, utilizing quantum states, I got Mac OS 9 running on a single electron.
I rule! Bow to me! Argh!
Seems like (Score:5, Funny)
D-Link DFL-700 router (Score:4, Interesting)
Mgz don't matter. (Score:4, Informative)
RTFA (Score:4, Informative)
> But until this [sic] the record of the lamest XP PC goes from Berlin (Germany) to Vienna (Austria).
> {Image} The golden Sandclock Award
> {Image} For extreme waste of time.
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Re:last time (Score:5, Informative)
There's a warning on the thermal compound that you shouldn't take it internally. Now I realize it wasn't specific enough to mention cats....
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Re:last time (Score:5, Funny)
Even if it did, who's going to teach the cats to read?
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Re:last time (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:last time (Score:5, Funny)
Well, you didn't know that before you read it, did you?
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