My curiosity was sparked reading another post. What;s your oldest machine successfully running windows 11? So far mine is; HP G60 Lappy Turion RM-70 x64 x2 @2.0g 4gig ram 320g 5400 hard drive Runs reasonably fast for its age. Hard drive seems to be the problem with wait time. SSD is next. Just started with this, hope to see some really old machines running Win11.
You won't see anything much older than your PC running W11, I think. The oldest CPU-line capable of running Windows 64-bit, since Windows 8.1, is the Core 2 Duo (July 2006+, according to Wikipedia). The 32-bit version allowed you to use a bunch of older CPUs, officially anything supporting SSE2 (~2004+), inofficially, even older was apparently possible. Either way, since Windows 11 doesn't have a 32-bit release, those CPUs are not eligible. Oh yeah, the oldest PC I ran W11 on, was my ThinkPad X61 with a Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM.
Windows 11 Home 21H2 Installed on my Old Acer Aspire Laptop Machine from 2012, after upgrade from Windows 10 Home 20H2 since July 26th, Last year. 2nd Gen Intel Core i3 2.20GHz 4GB of RAM 500GB HDD Intel HD 3000 + nVidia GeForce GT 630M Legacy Mode Windows 11 have Main Machine is Acer Aspire from 2012 with 2nd Core i3. Windows 11 not have Second Machine is Dell Latitude from 2008 with Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM (that no upgrade RAM to 4GB), just Windows 10 or Windows 7 only installed on Dell.
One of those Athlon 64 3200+ is still running great on it's DFI LanParty motherboard, 4GB RAM, WD Raptor main HDD, Windows 7 64. If I re-image it with the Windows 7 of that time, before Microsoft got on the telemetry spyware train, the smoothness can surprise anyone! Like, there's no latency, anywhere.
Lenovo B50-10 Laptop with Samsung 860 EVO SSD =========================================== Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2840 @ 2.16GHz 2.16GHz RAM 8.00 GB (7.88 GB usable) 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Edition Windows 11 Pro Release 21H2 Operating system build 22000.613 Performance Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22000.613.0
Wouldn't even put this s**t on any of my poor old systems. It's just not fair. They need to die a decent death.
Anyone remember DOS? Still the core of win11.Trying an install on a core2 machine. Ill post my results.
Not even a single Windows NT OS is based on DOS. DOS is still included as a virtual emulation (NTVDM aka NT Virtual DOS Mode). DOS as underlying OS died with Me.
You are partially correct like Unix is in the basement of all Linux. Yes it is. Buried deep and forgotten.