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So, 40 year old x86 and 30 year old ARM is not full of legacy issues and layers over layers of hacks? A good fresh start has always possibilities, real questio
by mda 11y ago
So, 40 year old x86 and 30 year old ARM is not full of legacy issues and layers over layers of hacks?
A good fresh start has always possibilities, real question is if Apple is competent enough to pull it off.
- monocasa 11y agox86 is rough, but ARM is still a fairly clean ISA.
- Nelson69 11y agoWhat about ia32e x86? Other than booting it, and EFI is addressing that, it's a fairly clean and nice architecture. Some of the registers have legacy names. Are there any really odd legacy behaviors?
- monocasa 11y agoPretty much everything still exists in AMD64. You can still set up a 16-bit process while running under long mode.
- rwmj 11y ago64 bit ARM is a mostly new ISA.