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duskwuff on April 6, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: ARM: Heretic in the church of Intel, Moore's Law

Not to mention, an ARM edition of Windows wouldn't be much good without either (1) a binary translator or (2) everyone rewriting their software to run on ARM. The OS does not exist in a vacuum.

charltones on April 6, 2009 [–]

or (3) everyone making source available? Could a more heterogeneous processor market drive people towards open source purely from the practical aspect of being able to built the right version to run on their kit?

sketerpot on April 6, 2009 | [–]

It's more likely to drive people to use a JITting virtual machine.

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