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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. Vista... by nick_davison · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's nothing. I got Vista to run on a quad core, state of the art SLI system with only 4GB of ram.

    OK, so it only sort of runs, the SLI doesn't actually work and a lot of the positional audio effects on my sound card have disappeared... but I'm hopeful that, with enough time for them to upgrade drivers, I may one day get it fully functional. Until then, Minesweeper is screamingly fast.

  2. Re:Reminds me of the time I compiled Gentoo on a 2 by stinerman · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you're going to troll at least make sense. Gentoo (and in general, Linux) won't compile on a 286. You'd need at least a 386.

  3. Cat-astrophic failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've got it running on my dead cat, and I can't tell the difference!

  4. Ah by trifish · · Score: 0, Troll

    So first it's "Look how Windows is bloatware and suxz0rs compared to Linux which can run with negligible amount RAM!" and when someone shows WinXP can do it too it's a "dubious milestone" and "award for 'extreme waste of time.'".

    I guess it's time for me to leave this fair "crowd" at last.

  5. Re:Let's try a different challenge... by mrbcs · · Score: 1, Troll
    As soon as I changed from an Intel to an Amd, I had to switch to win 98. Win95 would install, but then crash hard on first boot. Wasn't supported on Amd at all. Which really sucked because I'm cheap but I like speed.

    I just installed win95 on a Dell pII 233 with 64 meg of ram for one of my kids. Incredible. The whole install took less than 5 minutes. I remember the first time trying to install this on a 386 took me about 3 hours.

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    I'm not anti-social, I'm anti-idiot.