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MayeulC · on Sept 30, 2020

I'll try again soon. I definitely remember running it on:

- Intel Core 2 Quad and Xeon E5472, DDR2. Old-ish (the xeon came out in 2010), but I used that system as my main until 2018 -- though with Linux.

- Samsung N220 (or quite similar) netbook. That thing originally came out with Win7 starter, and was a slog with it.

A cursory search ("Ryzen XP") gives plenty of results: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/installing-windows-xp-on-a... https://community.hwbot.org/topic/189776-xp-works-on-ryzen/

Though by now ReactOS might be better supported, especially on modern HW.

hilbert42 · on Oct 4, 2020

Thanks for the info. I'll check that out.

I wouldn't hold my breath with ReactOS. It seems to me there's so few developing it that it'll never reach critical mass. Shame really, as alternative non-MS O/S that runs x86/64 Win APIs would be useful.