Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoSpeed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparisonwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1843arrow-down122
arrow-up1821arrow-down1external-linkSpeed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparisonwww.tomshardware.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square102fedilink
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·3 days agoWasn’t there a bug that made XP unable to hit even 4GB, I seem to recall a limit of 3,5GB ram…
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·3 days agoShort answer, no, there were artificial limitations to ensure compatibility. Plenty of long-form answers if you care to search.
minus-squareDecq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoIt was 3.2GB and afaik it wasn’t a bug, but 800MB was reserved for hardware IO
Wasn’t there a bug that made XP unable to hit even 4GB, I seem to recall a limit of 3,5GB ram…
Short answer, no, there were artificial limitations to ensure compatibility. Plenty of long-form answers if you care to search.
It was 3.2GB and afaik it wasn’t a bug, but 800MB was reserved for hardware IO