Running Windows XP on a...

[StrangerGuy]

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Quick tidbits:

System takes 30 mins to boot.
CPU load is always 100% even if idling!
Sisoft Whestone score: 9 MIPS (A64 X2 4800+ : 20630 MIPS, 2292 times faster!)

Amazing huh?

 

[0roo0roo]

yea old pc's are frightening. even p90 is unusable heh..i tried installing win2k on one😛

 

[Vegitto]

Cool! 😀

 

[Sphexi]

I seem to remember the original Gameboy ran at like 5mhz or something....think you could get XP on it?

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I seem to remember the original Gameboy ran at like 5mhz or something....think you could get XP on it?

Nah.. Not enough RAM and too little storage space.

 

[Colt45]

haha thats awsome 🙂

i remember trying similar things with win2k in the past, but never that slow!

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I seem to remember the original Gameboy ran at like 5mhz or something....think you could get XP on it?

According to Wikipedia, the Gameboy has a 4.184MHz Z80 CPU. I suppose even a 8MHz Pentium is still way faster.

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I seem to remember the original Gameboy ran at like 5mhz or something....think you could get XP on it?

According to Wikipedia, the Gameboy has a 4.184MHz Z80 CPU. I suppose even a 8MHz Pentium is still way faster.

One might be able to put Windows (XP) on a Gameboy Advance?

 

[PlatinumGold]

which cpu is that? i seemed to remember the slowest pentium being 60 mhz

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: Vegitto

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I seem to remember the original Gameboy ran at like 5mhz or something....think you could get XP on it?

According to Wikipedia, the Gameboy has a 4.184MHz Z80 CPU. I suppose even a 8MHz Pentium is still way faster.

One might be able to put Windows (XP) on a Gameboy Advance?

Don't think so. GA doesn't have even have a 1MB of RAM.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
which cpu is that? i seemed to remember the slowest pentium being 60 mhz

It was a Pentium 60MHz downclocked to 8MHz.

 

[imported_Phil]

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[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy

Originally posted by: Vegitto

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I seem to remember the original Gameboy ran at like 5mhz or something....think you could get XP on it?

According to Wikipedia, the Gameboy has a 4.184MHz Z80 CPU. I suppose even a 8MHz Pentium is still way faster.

One might be able to put Windows (XP) on a Gameboy Advance?

Don't think so. GA doesn't have even have a 1MB of RAM.

Point was the CPU speed though...you can always put extra memory and HD space in to get it going. Biggest problem would be that the Gameboy CPU isn't the same architecture, so I doubt it'd work anyways 🙁

 

[oboeguy]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
which cpu is that? i seemed to remember the slowest pentium being 60 mhz

It was a Pentium 60MHz downclocked to 8MHz.

I thought that for the final numbers they used an Overdrive chip on a 486 board. 8MHz, the ISA bus speed... amazing. You have to hand it to MS: as useless as this is, it is really cool to see how "backwards compatible" XP can be.

 

[EKKC]

hhaha nice! crazy at 7mhz!!! 😀

 

[xeemzor]

I would really hate to be forced to use that computer for any real work, heh.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Time to upgrade, eh?

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: xeemzor
I would really hate to be forced to use that computer for any real work, heh.

 

[beer]

wow, what a fantastic waste of time 🙂