Reply to post: situation where a CPU wouldn't run a recent version of Windows.

Microsoft herds biz users to Windows 10 by denying support for Win 7 and 8 on new CPUs

Jess

situation where a CPU wouldn't run a recent version of Windows.

I recall an issue with Windows 95 where it wouldn't run on certain high speed AMD processors. Pentium 2 was fine. (But emulated 16 bit code iirc, so wasn't always fast)

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