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Apple has also transitioned their entire platform from 680x0 to PowerPC to x86 to ARM. Whereas Microsoft has been basically stuck on x86.
by threeseed 5y ago
Apple 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.