Post Ad0My1QE7AV9aThKWu by Ted@landofkittens.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ad0MQjbXL59ilr7DbU by Moon@shitposter.club
       2023-12-20T15:25:55.022158Z
       
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       Windows XP is perfectly usable. I wonder  what exactly changed in the programming in Vista onwards made Windows require over 4x as much CPU and 20x as much memory. I am talking about core Windows not .NET applications.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad0MYj5n7uTdV24rz6 by itsover@poa.st
       2023-12-20T15:27:30.296264Z
       
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       @Moon Windows 7 is perfectly usable. I wonder what exactly changed in the programming in 10 onwards to make Windows require a fuckton more RAM as well as mandatory SSD for decent drive performance and drive indexing.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad0MegvI6ZvQVc0hzE by Moon@shitposter.club
       2023-12-20T15:28:33.565655Z
       
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       @itsover 7 ran better on the same hardware than Vista but the memory savings of XP are dramatic even over 7.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad0MisFRwMwYn8Qxrk by ilja@ilja.space
       2023-12-20T15:29:13.842557Z
       
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       @Moon there was also a "tiny XP". I used it for a while without problems, it used even less resources.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad0MonQolH6NafZj2O by Moon@shitposter.club
       2023-12-20T15:30:22.946421Z
       
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       @ilja I wonder how small you could get the memory footprint. I am pretty sure I've run it in 96MB of memory. That just isn't enough for some data you're working with!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad0My1QE7AV9aThKWu by Ted@landofkittens.social
       2023-12-20T15:31:44.953921Z
       
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       @Moon @ilja NTDev on Musksite pushed the boundaries of different Windows versions for memory capacity pretty well
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad0NC8Bxk008dcknHE by slash@cdrom.tokyo
       2023-12-20T15:34:26.135742Z
       
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       @Moon well there's the natural increase from 64 bit addressing, prefetch and superfetch services, whatever overhead the compositor and UAC added, adjustments to the pagefile behavior and a default preference for keeping background services performant and stable over whatever is foreground.. plenty of break key shortcuts too so probably a process for each of those.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad0NaA3eSGgXNKKCBc by Moon@shitposter.club
       2023-12-20T15:38:54.421447Z
       
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       @mikoto @ilja at a previous job a couple years ago I had to install SP3 to get Powershell RPC on some specialized VMs running XP. SP3 really increased the memory usage a lot.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad0NxDzVzt3cEbO5Gy by Moon@shitposter.club
       2023-12-20T15:42:57.985829Z
       
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       @mikoto @ilja Incidentally I was speculating about the differences, one is Windows 10 is much more secure against rootkits than XP. I know that because part of the reason I was installing XP on hundreds of VMs was for rootkit research.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad0T27tuZHOUZ2vI9I by not_br549@jollyville.net
       2023-12-20T16:40:02.549083Z
       
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       “No one will ever need more than 640K of RAM.”  – Micro Bill