danikayser84 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I had Windows 2000 running on I believe a Pentium 166 (non-MMX) several years ago just for a test (64MB RAM, I think, and a 3.2GB hard drive), with Firefox 2.x, also ran Win2K (slimmed down with nLite) on my IBM ThinkPad 570 for a while with 192MB RAM and a 6GB hard drive, actually ran pretty well with Opera 11.64 and Firefox 10 ESR (although recently I went back to 95 on that machine)I did own a 486DX/2 66 for a while, and I worked on a little project called Tiny2000 at the time (to see how small I could get Windows 2000... the target was 32MB RAM and a 1GB hard drive); unfortunately, I lost interest and I no longer own any machines pre-Pentium II... (does Windows 2000 require a 486DX? Not sure if an SX would work because it lacks an FPU... I do know however that 2000 won't work on a 386 due to 486+ instructions) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 You could try in Qemu, though I seem to remember that the oldest simulated processor (on a simulate ISA machine) is the 486 Bochs surely has the 386 option:http://sourceforge.net/p/bochs/news/though it seems like needs to be compiled expressly for this.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenomic Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 I have W2k on a Pentium II Thinkpad 770E running on 16GB flash drive (check my post from ~2 yrs ago). I wouldn't go lower than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironman14 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 (edited) Absolute minimum: 650 MB Hard Drive, 32 MB RAM, 133 MHZ processor (Pentium Pro+). Probably a PC designed for Windows 95, or a very high end Windows 3.1 PC would be the minimum (~1995). For light, everyday use, I wouldn't use less than 64 MB RAM, or 128 MB RAM for the Internet. But personally, I use 1 GB RAM.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304297/en Edited May 12, 2014 by ironman14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnX Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Here is Windows 2000 running on a 25Mhz Intel 486 CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 That's an "odd" amount of RAM 36480kb = ~4.56mb... Must have some RAM on-board as socketed chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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