31 Oct
2015
31 Oct
'15
10:03 a.m.
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