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While Apple could do a Microsoft and try to keep third-party software working for decades, they've realised they can offload that work to the third parties for
by michaelt 5y ago
While Apple could do a Microsoft and try to keep third-party software working for decades, they've realised they can offload that work to the third parties for free.
- threeseed 5y agoApple has also transitioned their entire platform from 680x0 to PowerPC to x86 to ARM. Whereas Microsoft has been basically stuck on x86.
- heavyset_go 5y agoI can easily run old x86 Linux binaries on ARM, and vice versa, automatically with binfmt_misc. User-mode emulation allows you to run x86 Windows binaries on ARM WINE, as well. And Microsoft fully supports running x86 applications on ARM Windows[1], as well. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on-arm-x86-emulation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on...
- hedora 5y agoMy raspberry pi boots Windows 3.1 just fine (through dosbox). It's more likely to run a random dos / win 3.1 program than my iPhone is to run a random piece of old iOS software. Put another way, the raspberry pi runs all but two of the games I played in that era. I can think of 6 iOS games that no longer run, and I played at least 10x as many games on DOS as iOS. My experience with productivity software has been similar.