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Windows XP (NT lineage) was easily stripped down to less than 50-100MB of both memory and disk space.
by 15155 2mo ago
Windows XP (NT lineage) was easily stripped down to less than 50-100MB of both memory and disk space.
- josephg 2mo agoI wonder if the computing requirements of windows scale exponentially? It looks like it. I suspect if we graphed them, they’d pretty perfectly match the computers that were available. Ie, I think windows is optimised just enough to run on the low end hardware of each generation.
- BobbyTables2 2mo agoThere always was speculation that the “WinIntel” monopoly intentionally did exactly this!
- BobbyTables2 2mo agoExactly! Having 256MB RAM used to be quite luxurious back in the day…