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Booting Windows XP on a 1MHz Pentium CPU takes three hours - tech
(hx) 09:37 AM CEST - May,01 2022 - Post a comment / read (4)
It is probably safe to say that very few people wonder what will happen if you try to run an old Windows version on a processor that is 233 times slower than the minimum recommended spec. If that question bothers you, NTDev coincidentally has the answer. NTDev, a Windows enthusiast with the fitting motto "Trying stuff so you don't have to", decided to install Windows XP on a system with a 1MHz Intel Pentium CPU, which is not enough to run even Windows 3.0 from 1990. The result of running a relatively modern operating system with the processor speeds from the 1970s (Intel 8088, for example, works at 5 to 16MHz clocks) is not surprising: just booting to the desktop takes three hours. The system also manages to open a simple app to display CPU clocks, but it takes a tremendous amount of time to launch, and the app itself is not very stable. Finally, shutting down Windows XP on a 1MHz CPU ended with a BSOD.

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heretic(09:45 AM CEST - May,01 2022 )
ggrobot> It is probably safe to say that very few people wonder what will happen if you try to run an old Windows version on a processor that is 233 times slower than the minimum recommended spec.

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Well this is really rough :-) I remember that my first PC XT with Intel 8088 processor was running in Turbo mode at 4.77MHz :-) It was enough for MS DOS at that time. I'm just wondering if I could still find some 5.25" floppy disks, but probably not anymore :-( I don't have an FDD drive anyway.

But I just found this
https://archive.org/details/retro-dos-games-collection

Csimbi(03:07 PM CEST - May,01 2022 )
I am known for keeping old shit around, but I ditched the 5.25 FDD already before the first Pentiums came alone. I do have a 3.5 FDD and a box of disks.
Some viruses I collected and a few boot disks...
Have not used them since the day you could boot from USB.

devilhood(10:28 PM CEST - May,01 2022 )
heretic> ggrobot> It is probably safe to say that very few people wonder what will happen if you try to run an old Windows version on a processor that is 233 times slower than the minimum recommended spec.

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Well this is really rough :-) I remember that my first PC XT with Intel 8088 processor was running in Turbo mode at 4.77MHz :-) It was enough for MS DOS at that time. I'm just wondering if I could still find some 5.25" floppy disks, but probably not anymore :-( I don't have an FDD drive anyway.

But I just found this
https://archive.org/details/retro-dos-games-collection

This is the most definitive DOS collection: https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html

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