31 Oct
2015
31 Oct
'15
4 a.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck
Guzis
Sent: 31 October 2015 01:12
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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:
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...
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.
--Chuck
Dave