What would be the point of requiring a 233 MHz CPU with SSE2? They don’t exist.
No, it’s because they’ve decided to turn on the SSE2 compiler optimizations. It does require a 1 GHz CPU - but probably not because it needs 4x the clock speed. And if you really want, you can delete other components that you don’t need.
Install Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and you’ll use around 1 GB. It may “require” 3 GB of disk space fully-loaded, but that’s if you install the fully-loaded everything-bundle. It may “require” 1 GB of RAM, but that’s with the OS loaded. The thing you have to remember is that the stated “System requirements” are very different from actual resource consumption. It’s just as fast - in fact, it’s faster, because I’ve probably got that character on my MRU list in Insert –> Symbol.
Ten years ago, I might’ve launched Character Map to grab some symbol that I didn’t know how to type. Take for instance Office, a suite who’s core functionality has remained unchanged for essentially two decades, yet compare the system requirements for Office 2003 and Office 2013 (10 year difference):Įach of those specs has increased 4-8 fold and yet, most changes in functionality were largely under the hood and nothing that would justify the absolute ballooning in sysreq’s.Īctually, Office is now very light on system resources - principally because its actually resource usage has NOT grown at anywhere near the rate that hardware has improved.
The examples of this are abound all over the software landscape. The problem isn’t that the system is too weak, it’s that software developers are so inundated with an embarrassment of riches that is modern hardware performance, that they’ve become complacent and instead of writing software properly, they succumb to the “meh just get more powerful hardware” mentality. The fact that Windows RT runs on the HD2 at all is a small miracle – this is a phone from 2009, running on a single-core 1Ghz Snapdragon processor with 576 MB RAM.Ĭontrary to popular belief and the ever lasting senseless GHz-GB march, a 1 gig CPU with half a gig of RAM is plenty enough to run almost any modern OS. I’ve always wanted an HD2, and this news really isn’t helping. It would be a nice gesture if they continued to do so today. The legality of it all is of course shaky as well, but then, back in the Windows Mobile days Microsoft simply looked the other way and silently approved the ROM community. We don’t have any video material (yet), and the port hasn’t been released to the public, so we don’t yet know how well it performs. The fact that Windows RT runs on the HD2 at all is a small miracle – this is a phone from 2009, running on a single-core 1Ghz Snapdragon processor with 576 MB RAM.
In order to get all this to work, I’ve been told Cotulla had to write his own EFI bootloader – no small feat, and it demonstrates his dedication and skill (as if that was needed considering he already ported both Android and Windows Phone to the HD2). Both the Metro environment and the plain old desktop run on the HD2, which presumably includes Office RT and the like. Russian hacker Cotulla, responsible for many of these ports, has just announced the next big port: Windows RT is now running on the HD2.Ĭotulla announced this rather bizarre achievement via Twitter, with a stream of photos to prove he got the job done. While it originally shipped with Windows Mobile way back in 2009, it has become one of the most hacker-friendly devices out there, and hackers have managed to port virtually everything to the device – various versions of Android, MeeGo, Ubuntu, and Windows Phone have found their way to the HD2. Simply install Windows 3.0a, then copy ThaiDrv directory content to C:\ and edit WIN.INI as in HTC HD2 is probably one of the most enduring mobile phones out there. Tho I have extracted/salvaged almost all of Thai System files to ThaiDrv directory. Need to redump disk 6 and possibly disk 7 from good disks. Note: This is incomplete release, since Disk 6 (Thai System Install Disk) was mostly unreadable.
For your convenience, I have applied an unprotect to the application files in the Patch directory, replace it with the patched files. The Thai system software (HPPCL.DRV, KEYBOARD.DRV, THAIDRV.DLL, THAIP.EXE) contains copy protection as it required parallel port hardlock (dongle) to operate. (iRC) and The MicroWiz Systems Co.,Ltd., distributed by The Value Systems Co.,Ltd. Co-developed by Microsoft, International Research Corporation Ltd. It is Windows 3.0a English version bundled with Windows Thai system. Microsoft Windows 3.0a Thai Edition is the first Windows that support Thai language.
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