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> And then, ARM-based Windows notebooks will not run x86-based Windows software. Yeah, loss of platform is the real problem. Windows isn't that great; its soft
by 10ren 17y ago
> And then, ARM-based Windows notebooks will not run x86-based Windows software.
Yeah, loss of platform is the real problem. Windows isn't that great; its software is. Same for intel. Hence the "wintel platform".
However, we have this new "web" platform, which might not be good enough, or have enough products, or be fast enough - but it is improving all the time. Perhaps, call it the web+arm = "warm" platform (though the ARM isn't part of the platform; any web will do).
BTW: if windows is written in a high level language (C), it just requires that the compiler targets a different processor. Of course, any tweaks written specifically for x86 (esp inline assembly) would have to be dealt with, and perhaps performance wouldn't be adequate with a simple retargeting - ARM would also need tweaks (again, esp inline assembly).
- rbanffy 17y ago"However, we have this new "web" platform," You know... We have had this new open-source platform that created lots of programs that can run on anything. I use Firefox on Windows PCs (it's not my fault - company policy), on Linux PCs, on a PPC Mac (and an IBM) and under Solaris on a SPARC box. It works well (apart from Flash support) on all of them. BTW, all these boxes have GNU command-line tools and a decent set of compilers and interpreters (I run Cygwin on Windows). With the exception of Windows and Mac, which impose their looks on users, I would be unable to tell what I am running under the GUI from a screenshot (not really - the AIX box runs CDE).