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by phillipwills 3421 days ago
Also, XP was released in 2002, so it should work rather well on the previous year's hardware...
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jankotek 3421 days ago
Wiki: General availability October 25, 2001; 15 years ago.

General minimum recommended for XP was/is 512MB.

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dfox 3421 days ago
Microsoft specified minimum is 64MB, recommended 128MB. XP RTM with 128MB RAM was perfectly usable, obviously it was not a good idea to run lots of crap in background.
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phillipwills 3420 days ago
Nice... Didn't Google before posting... Busted. :)
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Sunset 3421 days ago
You're the hopeful kind I see. XP was utter shit on "medium" hardware of its time. It ate ram like no tomorrow compared to 98.
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