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Windows 7 on a Dinosaur!
Check this post out from the forum of thewindowsclub.com! Member, “hackerman1″ has run a few tests on a really old (and I mean REALLY old) system just to see if Windows 7 would run on it… and it looks like he was successful! Here are the specs of the machine he used for his tests:
CPU: 266MHz Pentium 2
RAM: 128MB, 96MB, and 64MB RAM (He lowered the RAM for each test)
GPU: 4MB
Apparently, only 2 of the 3 tests were successful: 128MB RAM and 96MB RAM. Below are screenshots of the System screen show such success:
From, “hackerman1,” “[o]n my third test with 64 MB I got some error messages about “insufficient memory”, then it rebooted…”
Naturally, the aforementioned is merely a novelty, as I doubt anyone on this planet plans on running Windows 7 on such an old machine… but stranger things have happened, I suppose. Last of note is his mention of performing the Windows 7 test on a 166MHz Pentium 1 system that sports an amazingly-amazing Aero-worthy (not) 1MB GPU! Stay tuned to thewindowsclub’s forum for more on that, if interested.
-Stephen
PS – Thanks to deeper2k for informing me of that post! =)
LOL. microsoft is really working on Windows 7
rofl I have a K62 400mhz with 320MB of ram I should try it on that.
Uh…
There is already an OS for your machine. It is called NT4.0
I ran my ISP in the mid-90's on NT4.0 on PII 266MHz machines. They worked great.
Then came ADSL and killed my dial-up ISP business. DAMN YOU ADSL!
Uh…
That was done purely for testing. It is called "proof of concept".
And by the way, nobody wants to hear about the life of a party-pooper. Go away!
^ heh.
ever tried the opposite: Install Windows 3.1 on a Core2Duo
Don't believe it will work.