Photoshop CS on Pentium 2?

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Pritchard, Daryl
Sep 30, 2003
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This is for the Adobe folks I guess…unless beta testers can provide a comment on it.

With PS7, the minimum spec for the Windows platform cited a P3 processor. Although not providing optimum performance, my dual 450MHz P2 has served my needs reasonably well (ignoring recent retouching work that leaves my healing brush begging for more oomph!) with PS7. So, my question is whether anyone knows if Photoshop CS ("PSCS"??…yuck!) will run at all on a P2 system or, at the very least, a dual P2 system?

Thanks,

Daryl

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Cox, Chris
Sep 30, 2003
It might run, but I wouldn’t advise it (kind of like entering a Yugo in the Grand Prix).

And Adobe hasn’t testing very heavily on P2 processors (because they’re ancient now).
PD
Pritchard, Daryl
Sep 30, 2003
Thanks Chris…that’s pretty much the response I expected. I’ve been aching for a new P4 system but gotta’ quit doing things like buying a new HDTV widescreen if I’m going to get what I want in a PC! To keep costs down, it may be time to consider just upgrading the mobo/ram/cpu on my current system.
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red
Sep 30, 2003
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:28:39 -0700, Pritchard, wrote:

Thanks Chris…that’s pretty much the response I expected. I’ve been aching for a new P4 system but gotta’ quit doing things like buying a new HDTV widescreen if I’m going to get what I want in a PC! To keep costs down, it may be time to consider just upgrading the mobo/ram/cpu on my current system.

if you don’t update your PC soon you may get labeled a Luddite 🙂 🙂
TK
Tomaz_Klinc
Sep 30, 2003
Poor Yugo, a laughing stock over there and, for a long time, a workhorse over here. However, let me remind you that the principal promoter of selling Yugo in the States was the then U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia Lawrence Eagleburger, and this idea cost us dearly.
HD
hot_denim
Sep 30, 2003
Chris Cox

Taking 80×86 instruction set wise context, When it was compilied; will/should it run on Pentium 2 systems due to this reason ? (there are no might’s here, either it was compiled to support 80686 somewhere).
CC
Chris_Cox
Sep 30, 2003
Denim – there is no code reason why it wouldn’t work down to a 486.

But _I’M_ not going to try running it on a 486.
RH
r_harvey
Sep 30, 2003
there is no code reason why it wouldn’t work down to a 486.

Then, you aren’t calling the CPUID instruction to check the processor family.

Can we assume that there is no check for the Windows version, either?
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Stephanie_Schaefer
Sep 30, 2003
r_harvey,

There is definitely a check for OS version – the app(s) will neither install nor launch.
RH
r_harvey
Sep 30, 2003
Thank you.

It would seem that running on a machine that doesn’t support the desired SIMD instructions would be more problematic than one that doesn’t support the desired level of DRM.

I guess there’s nothng else for me here, then.
DM
dave_milbut
Sep 30, 2003
There is definitely a check for OS version – the app(s) will neither install nor launch.

ouch.

It would seem that running on a machine that doesn’t support the desired SIMD instructions would be more problematic than one that doesn’t support the desired level of DRM.

Ouch. Ouch. Which is why sp3 is probably required for win2k. Ouch.
CC
Chris_Cox
Sep 30, 2003
harvey – we can run the SIMD code only on the CPUs that support it.

For that, we DO check the CPUID.

But we don’t set a minimum CPU version that we run on (other than what’s needed to run Windows 2K/XP).
RH
r_harvey
Sep 30, 2003
For that, we DO check the CPUID.

Wouldn’t it be easier to support only CPUs that have the correct features, instead of adding to complexity by offering an emulation library for outdated, and possibly buggy, computers?

That’s a trap. Don’t bother with it. I’m bewildered by this series of upgrades. I’m probably a little slow, but I can eventually tell when a platform no longer fits my needs. I don’t know what I’ll do when Safecast works on the Mac.
CC
Chris_Cox
Sep 30, 2003
harvey – no. You really don’t understand how it works.
RH
r_harvey
Sep 30, 2003
harvey – no. You really don’t understand how it works.

Thanks, I was wondering about me.

It’s a good thing I stopped writing programming libraries in Assmbly language. No telling what I might’ve done.
RH
r_harvey
Oct 1, 2003
Chris – In post #11 I was alluding to Windows98, which you and others from Adobe have been saying is too old and/or buggy to use, even though several copies are probably working just fine right now.
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John_Slate
Oct 1, 2003
OK this post really belongs in the lounge but I can’t help it.

I used to actually OWN a Yugo, given to me by my sister-in-law. I used it as a train-station car.

People that knew, when you told them you had one, would give you a sympathetic nod…

So anyway one day, and I swear I am not making this up, my wife and I were looking out the kitchen window of our small house in Princeton, NJ at the Yugo parked in the driveway. One of us remarked to the other something like, "Boy, what a piece of sh*t that car is!"

As if on cue, at that very moment, the side view mirror on the driver’s door falls off the car, right in front of our eyes.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Man alive! That is about the funniest thing I ev….

OK, OK, OK, I guess you had to be there, but that’s the type of thing you remember and retell to other’s when the opportunity arises.

So call me a opportunist.

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