XP on 8 MHz Pentium w/ 20MB Ram
Slashdot is reporting:
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?”
One of the funnier comments to this /. post was:
I for one welcome our new masochists overloards
Click over to the link above in the /. post, they’ve got tons of pics of the machine and screenshots of the XP image.
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Yeah, I did this once for a friend that wanted XP on a 200mhz laptop with 32mb memory. I ended up installing XP using his hd in my 1.2gz 512mb laptop, and then replacing the drive in his unit. Kinda messy, but it turned out solid. I don’t know about the guys from the article, but it was a real test of patience to run XP at 200mhz