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ARM's first explosion was in PDAs, not running Linux. SA110 and XScale. A ton of ARM hardware is embedded cores running VxWorks or EmBed. M0 through M4. Yes, P
by greyhair 5y ago
ARM's first explosion was in PDAs, not running Linux. SA110 and XScale.
A ton of ARM hardware is embedded cores running VxWorks or EmBed. M0 through M4. Yes, Phones are the dominant core consumer here, but there is a whole bunch of embedded/IoT stuff shipping ARM cores every day that will never see Linux installed.
- philistine 5y agoAnd it's always fun to remember ARM's second explosion: Nintendo. For a while, the most popular device using ARM was the Game Boy Advance.
- dylan604 5y ago>that will never see Linux installed. Right up until you see someone run Doom on it.