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windowsXP on a 386 it works finally
Name: guy Date: September 19, 2003 at 10:08:57 Pacific OS: windowsxp CPU/Ram: 386dx50mhz / 96mb
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Hi i have windowsXP running on a very old mainframe with a 386dx processor and 96mb ram
I first installed windows xp on a pentium3 and then put the 2GB hard disk in the 386 and it works but veeeeeery slow
Name: Jumbie Date: September 19, 2003 at 13:37:47 Pacific
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I'm not surprised XP runs veeeeeeeery slow on a 386. Are you?
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Response Number 2
Name: kkk Date: September 19, 2003 at 14:43:49 Pacific
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i don't believe that tale at all. one cannot load win xp on one drive/motherbard and move it to another motherboard, only if its a scsi drive can that be done. liar liar, your pants are on fire
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Response Number 3
Name: guy Date: September 19, 2003 at 15:17:39 Pacific
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it is a scsi hard drive
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Response Number 4
Name: guy Date: September 19, 2003 at 15:19:47 Pacific
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and im not sure but i think it also can be done with a normal ide hard drive. I did the same experiment with windows98 last year on a 386/25 with 32 mb ram and it also worked
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Response Number 5
Name: turbex Date: September 19, 2003 at 15:25:57 Pacific
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guy is right,
Every version of ms windows (except for the 64bit version of windows xp) "runs" on a 386 or higher Because it is a real 32bit processor only much much slower than today cpu's but you will never be able to install windows xp on a 386 because the setup program does a cpu test and if this cpu is under the minimum requirments it just wont install. But you can bypass this to install it furst on a like guy says pentium3 machine and then move the hard drive to a 386. If the 386 has plenty of ram and disk space im pretty sure it will "run" but with very low performance
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Response Number 6
Name: Dr. Nick Date: September 20, 2003 at 00:56:22 Pacific
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It's not nice to call someone a liar, especially when you don't know what you're talking about...
YES you can take an XP install on an IDE drive and pop it into a completely different machine, granted of course, that you have the correct version of XP.
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