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?"

Comments

Re:Reminds me of the time I compiled Gentoo on a 2

[stinerman]

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.

Re:Let's try a different challenge...

[mrbcs]

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.