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Getting The Most Out Of Old Hardware


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Ever wonder what it would be like to take dinosaur computer systems (first generation pentiums) and try to install XP on them? Someone went to the trouble of analyzing the absolute junkiest system you'd need to run XP off of (whether it runs well or not is a whole different story).

If you've ever built a PC from scratch, you can probably find some humour in the article, found @ http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm

The most amusing thing is reading how long it took XP to boot up on some of those old systems.

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The slowest system I've installed XP on was a K6-2 350 Mhz with 384 MB of ram. It ran slow, but was functional. The fact that someone intentionally went looking for the lowest specs absolutely required for XP to run is hilarious (sp?). Someone using a system that slow is definitely better of with either Win3.1 or Win95.

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I remember looking at that site some time ago. It is mad what some people will do with their spare time.

Still, it is quite cool seeing that someone did actually manage to get XP to run on hardware that old/slow.

Now to see what they can achieve with Vista! :lol: That doesn't even run properly with less than 2GB of ram! :P

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They probably started on Vista as soon as it was released, it's still booting

ROTFLMAO.

You could probably apply your statement to any PC built before 2005; that's how disturbingly bloated Windows Vista is!

Anyway, I brought up that website because I found it hilarious, but since some of you have attempted to install XP on rigs with CPU speeds < 500 MHZ, I suggest you try Linux. Old hardware goes a lot further on Linux than it does on Windows.

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