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Vista on 250 MHz Cyrix MII (vid)

I turned the video off around 5 mins. I kept falling asleep :rolleyes:

Hmm, you have to be a nice unmarried guy to have THAT kind of time. If you had a wife, I can hear her now.
 
chuckcmagee said:
I turned the video off around 5 mins. I kept falling asleep :rolleyes:

Hmm, you have to be a nice unmarried guy to have THAT kind of time. If you had a wife, I can hear her now.
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heh, i'm 25 and unmarried yeah. enjoying the ubernerdly bachelor life while i can. that's the point of this video though, how slow it is. :)
 
Ho-ho Vista on 250 Mgz CPU... very quickly. I'm starting Windows Vista at AMd-K5133PR CPU (real 100 Mgz?) And fun, Vista detect this CPU as 50 Mgz :)

download that video (starting windows vista on 133 CPU)
http://www.gbu.ho.ua/temp/vista/vista133.flv

Also i'm starting Vista at 90 Mgz CPU but vista starting only in safe mode, and don't want to install.

This my other videos:

windows 98 on EGA adapter+monitor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZljVxwIzTM

windows 95 on MFM HDD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSC6xVmagDo
 
You know the one thing I could not help noticing is that once the system was up it seemed to be running ok, at least quite a bit less lag than I would have expected. Word loaded in a decent amount of time.

It looks usable, for the very patient.
 
I've seen PCs boot that slow before, but not because of Vista... it's usually because they have Norton Antivirus installed, MSN Messenger pop up, and a load of spyware running.
 
I wonder if Vista having a delayed startup for some services has anything to do with boot times? I don't recall XP doing having that option.
 
Mike Chambers said:
i've actually thrown in a second hard drive to try installing it.
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It does look like Microsoft will get some more of my money when Win7 hits the streets. Older ATI video cards didn't get special drivers loaded but I found the standard VESA Win7 video driver to be close to acceptable. Tad slow on the redraw but you would expect that. In fact, if I could get some good discounts on buying the Beta (yes, I know, they don't sell it) I would likely get 2 or 3 licenses of Win7 Ultimate today. I should send this to Balmer.
 
chuckcmagee said:
Win7 Ultimate today.
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As far as I know, last I checked there will be two retail versions of Win 7, Home Premium and Professional. There will be a bunch of others but those go to OEM's and "Developing Markets". That was the plan anyway, don't know what they're up to at the moment. They wanted to knock back the absurd about of versions since the slew of Vista ones wasn't well received.
 
We should've had all these version options with software back in the 1980s. Imagine the possibilities!

Paperback Writer 64 Starter (prints characters directly to printer)
Paperback Writer 64 Basic (40 Column, Monochrome)
Paperback Writer 64 Professional (80 Column, Monochrome)
Paperback Writer 64 Business (80 Column, Monochrome, Sound)
Paperback Writer 64 Ultimate (80 Column, Color, Sound, bonus video game)
 
lol. So now you need to have it do the rate your windows experience, and then load a dos game (Ultima! heh) and see how that goes. Actually that makes me think I may need to check compatibility on a few games that were remade for Windows on my newer OSes too.
 
I seem to recall a couple of German kids a few years ago radically underclocking a socket 3 Pentium overdrive chip and a first gen socket 4 Pentium chip and getting XP to boot at something like 16 MHz.

*update* Google reveals the winner of the contest booted XP at 8 MHz

http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm
 
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