Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-square92fedilinkarrow-up1748arrow-down117
arrow-up1731arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down2·2 months 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-up17·2 months agoShort answer, no, there were artificial limitations to ensure compatibility. Plenty of long-form answers if you care to search.
minus-squareDecq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months 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