> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck > Guzis > Sent: 31 October 2015 17:03 > 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 10/31/2015 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 should hope so too. I would expect Windows/7 to run just fine as well, provided there are drivers. > > 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. > I had a K6-350 for ages. I can't remember what I ran on it W2K I think. I think at about that time in work I had an Armada 700 with perhaps a 450Mhz CPU. That ran 2k fine but XP was not nice and not usable. > The be-all and end-all of any PC OS isn't necessarily running a bloated > browser. > When I last looked at an XP machine it was more the AntiVirus that killed memory. Also Java was pretty much a resource hog. But I have an eMachine with an Atom CPU It really crawls with XP. Seems much better now I have put 7 on it. Debating if I should try 10... > Let's also not forget that XPe was deployed on all sorts of non-SSE2 > hardware, from thin clients to POS system. That would mostly be the embedded version. There is a windows/7 8 & 8.1 embedded as well. I believe that the Win/7 embedded is lighter than the XP embedded. XP on was a total pain as some of the HP clients were susceptible to a nasty that sneaked in via a downlevel JAVA The would re-boot up clean but when running if they got infected they would attack other machines on the network. > > --Chuck Dave
