Posts by hotaru 4 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2009
Windows 3.1 required 286 instructions.
Windows for Workgroups, 95 and NT 3.x required 386 instructions.
Windows NT 4, 98, 98SE, ME, and 2000 required 486 instructions.
Windows XP required CMPXCHG8B.
Windows 7 required SSE2 since KB4088875.
Windows 8 required PAE, NX, and SSE2.
64-bit Windows 8.1 and 10 required CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW, and LAHF/SAHF.
Windows 11 required SSE4.1.
Windows 11 24H2 is definitely not the first to require a particular instruction set.
> $885.5 million in subsidies
> Elon Musk – the world's richest man, with a net worth of approximately $260 billion
so when are they going to start investigating the world's richest man for this blatant misuse of the resources he's been entrusted with instead of fighting over an amount so small that Elon wouldn't even notice if it was a pile of cash on the ground right in front of him?
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