Warp nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/10/25 17:29:

>> Do you even remember when WinXP first came out? And how everybody has 
>> utterly horrified at the minimum hardware requirements to make it 
>> function acceptably? It's been around so long now that everybody seems 
>> to have forgotten that XP takes four times as much hardware to do the 
>> same thing as older OSes managed to do quite happily...
> 
>   I wonder if you could even install XP in a 386, in any shape or form.
> Any modern linux distro should be installable in a 386. Even X might work
> if you use a superlight window manager, so you will not even be confined
> to the command prompt.
> 
>   (Why would anyone even want to install linux in a 386? Well, if you
> have one laying around, it makes a supercheap firewall or small-scale ftp
> server, for instance.)
> 
During the Vista's beta testing, some foolhardy guy managed to install AND run 
Vista on a 386 (or maybe even only a 286) with only 16Mb of RAM and a large HD. 
Must have been slow as HELL, and trashing the drive non-stop, but it DID work, 
if only "sort of"!

-- 
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you find yourself daydreaming for 
hours on end what it would be like to go back in time and give Michealangelo a 
decent raytracer.
Taps a.k.a. Tapio Vocadlo

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