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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by immy on Thursday June 25, 2020 @06:57PM (#23646737)
As long as there's mutable software binaries, DRM can be subverted. If core OS11 software lived on a special R/W chip instead of a disk, that'd be quite a move. Apple hasn't even done that with iPhone though.
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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday June 25, 2020 @06:59PM (#23646755)
No one has managed to get iOS running on non-Apple hardware, how will Apple-Silicon-only macos be any different?

I don't see it happening myself.

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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by runjake on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:05PM (#23646801)
Not true. Corellium has. And if they've virtualized it on non-Apple hardware, others can, too.

https://twitter.com/corelliumhq

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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:31PM (#23646983)
Huh, I'd assumed they were doing some type of emulation thing (which is still impressive as heck), are they actually executing native instructions on a non-Apple CPU?

Actually, I'd love to read more about Corellium in general—have they made any technical details public, even high level? They seem to be very secretive about how it all works—which, to be fair, I can totally understand.

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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by FineTralfazz on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:05PM (#23646797)
They have: https://corellium.com

Though there is an ongoing lawsuit as a result.

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