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It helps if you don’t have to drag along compatibility with 40 year old obsolete technology.
by tinus_hn 6y ago
It helps if you don’t have to drag along compatibility with 40 year old obsolete technology.
- flohofwoe 6y ago42 years old obsolete technology isn't that much different than 35 years old obsolete technology though ;)
- spacedcowboy 6y agoApple’s ARM is 64-bit only. And it’s an internal-to-Apple design that doesn’t have to be compatible to ARM in general. Apples burden of backwards compatibility is essentially zero at this point, it’s a totally new architecture.
- wmf 6y agodoesn’t have to be compatible to ARM in general It does now because of Linux VMs. They added back 4K pages, for example.