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Low power is relative: NT is good at saving battery on laptops, but these are supercomputers compared to IoT hardware. The most minimal NT system that I have se

Low power is relative: NT is good at saving battery on laptops, but these are supercomputers compared to IoT hardware. The most minimal NT system that I have seen so far was still 50MB. Not sure if MS was able to shrink that further. But in a world where every byte of flash or RAm saved can lead to essential power savings, this is far too big. With a custom linux kernel with no extra drivers and modules and busybox in userspace, you can get much smaller than 50MB.

NiveaGeForce 9y ago
Windows Phone ran on NT since version 8.
jaclaz 9y ago
>The most minimal NT system that I have seen so far was still 50MB. Well, it depends on what you want to do. A really minimal XP with minlogon is around 10 Mb (actually around 20 MB that on NTFS compressed volumes are around 10), of which quite a bit is things that could be removed or greatly reduced in size recompiling the programs/dll's if the source was available, that won't do much, while with a decent amount of base tools it comes out at 30-40 MB or so. Some references to a dedicated project: [0] http://mistyprojects.co.uk/minixp/docs/files/index.html http://mistyprojects.co.uk/minixp/docs/files/index.html [1] http://mistyprojects.co.uk/minixp/docs/files/intro.htm http://mistyprojects.co.uk/minixp/docs/files/intro.htm [2] http://mistyprojects.co.uk/minixp/docs/files/about.htm http://mistyprojects.co.uk/minixp/docs/files/about.htm