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Re:Circumventing Windows RT’s Code Integrity Mechanism by wmf on Sunday January 06, 2013 @11:09PM (#5019258)
Emulation is fine when you're switching to a faster processor (68K -> PPC, PPC -> Intel). In this case, MS is introducing a slower processor so emulation would probably be painful.
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Re:Circumventing Windows RT’s Code Integrity Mechanism by meaty on Monday January 07, 2013 @05:34AM (#5020371)
Well they shot themselves there. The CLR was supposed to be the portability layer i.e. IL code would be dynamically compiled. Unfortunately due to Microsoft's schizophrenia, it never became a first class part of the OS over say non-portable PE x86 specific binaries.

Technically they could use dynamic translation, but building a working translator for x86->arm would be an absolute bastard as x86 is such a non-orthagonal mess of an architecture.

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