Subj : Re: Raspberry Pi 4.. 8gb
To   : paulie420
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Jul 13 2020 10:58:21

  Re: Re: Raspberry Pi 4.. 8gb
  By: paulie420 to Nightfox on Sun Jul 12 2020 11:27 pm

 Ni>> Pretty much all the mobile devices (smart phones & tablets) out
 Ni>> there use ARM ch ips.  And just for consumers, it seems there may be
 Ni>> more people using smart phon es & tablets than desktop PCs and
 Ni>> laptops.. 

 pa> Ok... I understand those devices; I think I should have originally said
 pa> that I hope ARM desktop OSes to continue to become better as that side of
 pa> ARM grows. 

It will be interesting to see if ARM can expand more into desktops & such.  It seems weird though, after the x86 architecture has been around in desktops and servers for so long.  A switch to a different type of CPU would mean breaking backwards compatibility with a lot of software.  An emulator could be created to handle the transition for a time, but eventually you'd still need to use emulation to use old software if you wanted to.

I've heard Apple already plans to replace Intel with ARM-based processors in their Macs.  And I've heard Microsoft has an ARM version of Windows 10 (with an emulator that will run 32-bit Intel x86 software on ARM)..

Nightfox

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