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jaimex2today at 6:46 AM2 repliesview on HN

Can someone like... boot Windows 98 on these on a system with no ram?!


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brandnewideastoday at 10:58 AM

Theoretically anything is possible with enough thought and work.

bell-cottoday at 8:12 AM

Conceptually - yes, easily.

But to do it literally - I'm not a low-level motherboard EE, but I'd bet you're looking at 5 to 7 figures (US $) of engineering work, to get around all the ways in which that would violate assumptions baked into the designs of the CPU, support chips, firmwares, etc.

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