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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)

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 16 points 10 months ago

Short answer, no, there were artificial limitations to ensure compatibility. Plenty of long-form answers if you care to search.

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[–] Decq@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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

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