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ggrobot
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 Posted: Sun May 01, 2022 9:39 am Post subject: Booting Windows XP on a 1MHz Pentium CPU takes three [55114] |
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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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heretic
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2022 9:45 am Post subject: Re: Booting Windows XP on a 1MHz Pentium CPU takes three [55 |
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| ggrobot wrote: | 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 |
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Csimbi
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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...
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devilhood
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2022 10:28 pm Post subject: Re: Booting Windows XP on a 1MHz Pentium CPU takes three [55 |
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| heretic wrote: | | ggrobot wrote: | 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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