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Re:Rust/WinRT Public Preview by pianoben on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:33PM (#23036412)
In fact, the _have_ transitioned to ARM, way back around the time of the first Surface tablet. Windows and Office have been running on ARM since at least, what, 2012?
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Re:Rust/WinRT Public Preview by loeg on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:44PM (#23036512)
Windows NT in 2000? I guess ARM was not a going concern at the time, but Windows was remarkably portable in 2000 before the dark decade of more or less exclusively Wintel.
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Re:Rust/WinRT Public Preview by zrm on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:46PM (#23038338)
https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Windows_NT_Server_Vers...

"Disc contains code to run on Windows NT-compatible x86, Pentium, MIPS, R4x00, Alpha, PowerPC and Pentium Pro systems"

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Re:Rust/WinRT Public Preview by jupp0r on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:41PM (#23038309)
Windows itself has never been the problem, but the Software that’s running on it.
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Re:Rust/WinRT Public Preview by pnako on Thursday April 30, 2020 @08:36PM (#23037958)
Way before that they had ARM-based Pocket PCs running Windows CE (or Windows Mobile).
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