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> For as awesome as Tiger was, it was RAM heavy compared with Windows XP at the time. 512MB really felt like a minimum to getting it running well, and 1GB if it
by cosmic_cheese 2mo ago
> For as awesome as Tiger was, it was RAM heavy compared with Windows XP at the time. 512MB really felt like a minimum to getting it running well, and 1GB if it really wanted to fly.
I think that’s because XP is mostly 2K with a new theme engine and some consumer stuff bolted on. It didn’t have full alpha desktop compositing and high resolution icons and other such things.
The closest Windows analogue to 10.4 is probably late-lifecycle Vista (after all the stability and hardware issues had been sorted) or 7, which are much closer in terms of features and modernness and were similarly heavy.