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Windows XP can run on an Intel CPU from 1989 thanks to dedicated modder (www.techspot.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Really amazing how people sink so much time into something like that. Port a super outdated CPU to a somewhat outdated OS. Why not? Well done.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

People also make Linux run on low powered microcontrollers that take hours to boot and don't have enough processing power to do anything useful just because they can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Maybe they wanted a lot of malware really fast?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

We do what we must because we can.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Ohh, I get it, coz we already knew it can run Doom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That one time Texas Instruments went Nintendo on a developer because they put Linux on a TI calculator.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder if someone will write a shim to boot windows 11 on a first generation i7

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

People already run windows 11 on core 2 duos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3vHHmIHo8c

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I found that my colleague had stuck it on an i5 today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Has anybody tried this on ao486 (MiSTer)?