On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel <wb2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. > I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm > assuming a flexible definition of "run". > > How long did it take to boot? What could you do under it once it had?
It likely boots much faster than a normal desktop because you get the memory usage down by turning off unneeded services and devices which take time to start up. We sell an industrial data collection machine based on XP that runs in about 80MB of allocated memory. We turn off the server service, themes and a couple others, along with unneeded devices, and have only tcpip v4 networking enabled. Doing a warm reboot takes about 20 sec IIRC from the time I click shutdown to the time it's back up taking data again. It still is manageable remotely with either remote desktop or pcanywhere, and runs 3 applications simultaneously that do our functionality, and send out the data in a continuous stream over the internet. The applications do have GUIs, though they are quite simple, being mainly status displays. > ______ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and > much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - > 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. > SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
