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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Speed 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 comparison

www.tomshardware.com

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Speed 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 comparison

www.tomshardware.com

Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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More fuel for the Windows 11 hate train.
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    Even the older Windows XP managed 50 tabs, and that’s because it kept crashing past that number because of its paging file failing to keep up, not because it had hit the 5GB memory ceiling.

    Windows XP 32bit can’t hit 5gb memory ceiling, the 32bit memory addresses don’t allow that

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

      Not at release. It came later though for certain chipsets.

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      Wasn’t there a bug that made XP unable to hit even 4GB, I seem to recall a limit of 3,5GB ram…

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        Removed by mod

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        It was 3.2GB and afaik it wasn’t a bug, but 800MB was reserved for hardware IO

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      PSA: In the video (not the retarded posted article that has 0 proofreading) it’s stated that he used Windows XP 64 bit

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