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"Steven Sinofsky even did a demo to us where he got Windows 8 up and running on an ancient laptop originally manufactured for use with Windows 95 or 98 (piece o
by keithpeter 13y ago
"Steven Sinofsky even did a demo to us where he got Windows 8 up and running on an ancient laptop originally manufactured for use with Windows 95 or 98 (piece of x86 hardware that was close to 20 years old.)"
Interesting. So I could buy a retail copy of Windows 8 and install it on this X61s (Duo Core 2, 3Gb RAM, Lenovo BIOS, Intel 945 graphics, Atheros WiFi) and it would run reasonably quickly?
- Aaronontheweb 13y agoIn theory - the poster below pointed out that they added a requirement later which eliminated support for any pre-2003 CPU. The demo I referred to happened about a year before Windows 8 RTMed.