> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck > Guzis > Sent: 31 October 2015 01:12 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: "Demystification" is just as important as "Abstraction" in > "Computer Science" (Was: Know any Fortran > > On 10/30/2015 05:18 PM, Dave Wade wrote: > > Why? Hardware hasn't really got much faster over the last four years. > > More CPU's have been added. In hardware terms anything that runs XP > > well will run anything later. > > There might be missing drivers, but in general its not a spec problem. > > I run XP on non-SSE2 hardware, but I suspect W10 demands it--certainly, > many browsers do.
Possibly, but if it does I would expect Windows/7, 8 and 8.1 to also need it. On looking on YOUTUBE someone claims to have installed one of the Windows/10 beta's on a P3. Wikipedia tells me the P4 was the first chip with SSE2 so perhaps Windows/10 will run without SSE2. SSE2 isn't exactly "leading edge" technology. It dates back to P4 in 2001 so is actually older than the XP. Also whilst XP would run on a small machine it was dire. I once was sent to look at a 256Mhz PII running XP to see if I could speed it up. Must have have been 2008 or 9 I think. Whilst fiddling I accidentally swapped the mouse and keyboard connections only to find it wouldn't boot set up like that. I left it that way and no one else figured out what was wrong so the user got their PC upgraded... > > --Chuck Dave
