Memory access on the Apple M1 processor

Re:Memory access on the Apple M1 processor by sitkack on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:07AM (#25667489)

Microsoft has a pretty good relationship with AMD from the Xbox. AMD already made an Arm Opteron. Windows has been multiplatform since NT 3.1 (Alpha, MIPS) and then in 3.51 adding in PowerPC. You can download Windows for Arm for free and run in on a Raspberry Pi.

Microsoft has at least one homegrown processor that it has ported Windows and Linux to with the confusingly named 'Edge'.

https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/18/microsoft_e2_edge_win...

Microsoft doesn't even _need_ to target Arm, they could easily team up with AMD or go the whole thing solo and target anything from RISC-V, Arm to an in-house ISA.

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Re:Memory access on the Apple M1 processor by mietek on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:17AM (#25669377)

> Windows has been multiplatform since NT 3.1 (Alpha, MIPS) and then in 3.51 adding in PowerPC.

What was the last version of Windows to support either of these platforms?

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Re:Memory access on the Apple M1 processor by jeffbee on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:01AM (#25671809)

PowerPC was the last architecture standing. It was supported by NT 4.0 SP2 (technically this means Microsoft supported it on paid support contracts as recently as 2006).

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Re:Memory access on the Apple M1 processor by gsnedders on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:11AM (#25672686)

Windows Server 2008 R2 supported Itanium.

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Re:Memory access on the Apple M1 processor by sroussey on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:07AM (#25667781)

There are rumors of Ryzen CPUs with ARM ISA, but I think AMD has enough on its plate.

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