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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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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 49 points 3 days ago

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

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

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 days 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....

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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