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throwaheyy on Nov 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (2006)

You likely wouldn’t find DIMMs small enough to boot it though. When I tried to prank my boss by replacing the HDD in his machine with one loaded with W95 it would not boot with even 512mb.

paulmd on Nov 4, 2019 [–]

There are command-line options to limit the amount of memory Windows sees. See the video.

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