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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by mhh__ on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:15PM (#23647348)
Hypervisor + Emulation? Unless they did some very serious obfuscation of the binaries they distribute it wouldn't be particularly difficult to guess what their new hardware did. Obviously wouldn't be as fast but it seems doable.
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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by rbanffy on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:10AM (#23652837)
You'd need a computer that's substantially more powerful than a Mac in order to emulate one. I believe Apple's premium will not be high enough to make this economically viable.
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