XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM 410
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?"
Hmmm (Score:4, Insightful)
ZzzZz.
Re:Reminds me of the time I compiled Gentoo on a 2 (Score:4, Insightful)
MOD PARENT INFORMATIVE (Score:1, Insightful)
Cyrix M5 (Score:2, Insightful)
Kids today have it easy, back in my day you just might have had to get a cyrix.
Re:Ah (Score:3, Insightful)
Now. XP has significantly higher "minimum" specs than 2K. It's also significantly more "bloated", in that it actually does need those higher minimum specs because it's got more stuff running. The UI takes more clock cycles to render, and there's more services running. AND... a Pentium at 8MHz with 20MB of RAM has less raw processing power than a '486 DX/33 with 64MB. How well do you think that XP installation actually ran?
Getting an OS *installed* on an anemic system is nowhere near the same as getting it to *run*.