User this week NTDEV found the answer to a far-fetched question: “What happens when trying to start Windows XP in a configuration 233 times slower than recommended?”. Enthusiast, from the Twitter account of the processor Pentium 1MHz From Intel, which launched in 1993, it would take at least three hours to achieve success—or close to that.
Although it started with relative success, Windows XP running on the old processor also took a long time to run simple applications such as the CPU clock. Worse, the OS encountered a nasty Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) while trying to shut down properly, possibly faster than the traditional process.
Check out the results of the success shortened to a YouTube video:
Windows XP and its requirements
Still “very” used, Windows XP left its mark on a generation of users when it was released in 2001. The operating system offered a modern interface, already equipped with a very complete set of applications and games – a differential requiring at least one processor could reach frequencies of 233 MHz.
In simpler terms, a modern entry-level cell phone can consistently reach frequencies of 1.6 GHz; this could be about 590% improvement over the minimum required by Windows XP. A modern high-end processor like Intel’s Core i9-12900 can reach a maximum of 5.10 GHz – an increase of about 2100% compared to the same benchmark.
Source: Tec Mundo
