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XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Not too long ago... by CrkHead · · Score: 5, Interesting
    When Windows 98 came out the installer also checked the memory. I was doing break/fix in a shop and someone insisted we could "upgrade" their OS without them purchasing RAM. I popped in test RAM, did the install, pulled the RAM and sent it home.

    Don't think we ever heard back from them.

  2. D-Link DFL-700 router by johu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    D-Link DFL-700 router runs WinXP quite well. It has 266 MHz AMD Geode (486 class CPU) and 64MB RAM. Just connect keyboard and VGA to debug connectors onboard (get pinout from Lanier website - they're actual board manufacturer) and plugin laptop HDD instead of non-standard flash-drive they ship with.

  3. Re:Hmph... by svallarian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So why in the dickens can't someone write a 16-bit wrapper so I can get some of this "32-bit software with a 16-bit installer" to install on Server 2003 x64?

    (Microsoft Great Plains version 9 if anyone cares)

    --
    I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."