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XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM
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?"
....a Beowulf cluster of these!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
What obscure hardware configurations have you managed to get Windows running on?
AMD Athlon 3000+ with 1 GB of RAM. A miracle... I know... and STILL I have to reinstall it every couple of months!!
Vista?
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Or rather, the time I started compiling Gentoo on a 286. It was 2004, and it's still going. I think KDE will be done by 2008.
Isn't this against the Geneva conventions?
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Isn't this against the Geneva conventions?
Sadly, computers don't have rights, so moral arguments aside, I'm afraid it's quite legal to run Windows on them.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
How about installing Windows 3.11 on a 64-bit system?
You're using a 286? Don't make me laugh. Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
It's roughly the speed of Vista on a Quad-Core C2 with 4GB of RAM and a 15K rpm RAID-0 array then?
=)
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
20 Megs of RAM? I thought 640K was supposed to be enough for anyone!!!
What obscure hardware configurations have you managed to get Windows running on?
iMac with an Intel Core Duo 2?
"They deserve a Golden Hourglass award for 'extreme waste of time.'"
Uh... I don't think they'd appreciate that - they probably see plenty of hourglasses already.
#DeleteChrome
And if used for medical computers, its an illegal operation :P
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As soon as a new Windows comes out, the old one is suddenly hailed as everything you would ever need, and a marvel of efficient resource usage.
When I worked at a computer repair shop, a woman brought in her system and said it was running slowly. I start the system up and expect there to be a bunch of virii. What I saw next shocked me.
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.
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They weren't by any chance hosting their website on that box too were they?
just because its grease, it doesn't mean you are supposed to use it to help the little captain invade mr. whiskas through his back door.
It's also their webserver...
I have made a 3.5" floppy with DOS 5.0 and Win 3.0. (Most of it anyway; some extras like paint etc wouldn't fit.) There was even enough room left on the floppy for the sysinternals NTFS driver for DOS! I can boot off this floppy and access the HD.
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.
All these n00bs talking about installing something on 64 megs crack me up. When I was a boy, I ran windows 3.1 on my TI-83 -- and was grateful, too!
I got Linux running on a motorized abacus powered by squirrels.
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!
Probably because they took it to someone else the next time.
Seems like they are using it as their server...
I'd like to see the license they bought for that. Can that thing pass the "WGA" test? Is it patched to SP2 and have the latest security patches? If not, it's just another spam sending zombie. ;-0
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I just read Slashdot for the articles.
>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..
Even if it did, who's going to teach the cats to read?
1 in 4 Maine children in struggle with hunger.
Eventually. You were pretty lethargic at first, but I found that running up to you, brandishing an axe and screaming "I'm going to cut your balls off!" did the trick.
Well, you didn't know that before you read it, did you?
-- Nate
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!