On 10/31/2015 04:00 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
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...
Well, XP runs just fine on my dual P3 (1GHz) server box. I know that Whistler was being tested and had many beta releases before the P4. The P3 certainly wasn't dead in 2001--the Tuallies were just being released then.
I started testing Whistler and developing for it using a P1, then a K6 machine. While not as snappy as 2K, it was and is certainly usable.
The be-all and end-all of any PC OS isn't necessarily running a bloated browser.
Let's also not forget that XPe was deployed on all sorts of non-SSE2 hardware, from thin clients to POS system.
--Chuck
