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T-R-A
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 594
Location: Western NC
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Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:05 pm |
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Actually, I'm a little suprised now. I upgraded my old Cyrix166 (w/64MB Ram) to Win2K Pro today and it's runs a lot better than I expected.  |
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MikeChambers
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:07 am |
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hmm, that's pretty interesting... so there's no real reason a 486 can't run it? i always assumed it used some 586+ only opcodes. im gonna have to try that on my 486 DX2/100 with 64 MB of ram. it'll be painfully slow, but i just want to say i've done it  |
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Anonymous Coward
Joined: 20 Nov 2004
Posts: 589
Location: Shandong, China
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Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:15 am |
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Hmmm, I wouldn't get your hopes up about it. I'm not sure that anybody has been able to prove or disprove that there are 586 opcodes in Windows XP, but so far I am unaware of anyone running XP on a 486. The closest that's been done is a 486 Pentium OD 83 on a 486 motherboard. |
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harshbarj
Joined: 01 Oct 2004
Posts: 169
Location: behind you!
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Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:23 pm |
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I'll have to give it a try tonight. I have a 486 board that can run the amd 5x86-133 and the POD83 (both I have). I have a strong feeling though that the 486 and 5x86 will not run xp though as most current software needs mmx, so even if you can get xp to run I don't see it being useful. |
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bear
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Posts: 205
Location: 57�59'N 15�39'E
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:52 pm |
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Proably very slow but would'nt it be possible to emulate mmx in some way ?
or is it strictly hardware ? |
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MikeChambers
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:09 pm |
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Proably very slow but would'nt it be possible to emulate mmx in some way ?
or is it strictly hardware ? |
it's strictly hardware. MMX is a set of opcodes built into the CPU. |
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bear
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
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Location: 57�59'N 15�39'E
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:40 pm |
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Anonymous Coward
Joined: 20 Nov 2004
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Location: Shandong, China
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Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:52 pm |
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Yeah, I mean hell...if 386 and 486sx CPUs can emulate math corprocessors, I wouldn't see any reason why it would be impossible to emulate MMX. Mind you, it would probably be really slow. |
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