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Originally Posted by nana77
it could had been a nice opportunity to have (the first ones seemed pricely thought) a more secure platform, less battery demanding, and so as to help all of those projects that are in there, or to port them (the only company that did the entire port of its applications on ARM is Apple, if I recall it correctly).
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Linux is mostly fine on ARM. Windows on ARM is pointless as the main reason to have Windows is business / corporate programs where the companies barely keep up with Windows releases (except MS, see Office 95 vs Office 4.3) and 30 years have shown little inclination to make their applications run on Mac, never mind anything other than Windows. Windows used to support more processors and a Desktop ARM had RiscOS and maybe UNIX by 1987.
Linux was viable by 1998 as a desktop.
Mac has had: 68000, PowerPC, Intel x86, AMD x86-64 (adopted by Intel) and now ARM. Apple first used ARM in the Newton. The iPad and iPhone (2007) run iOS which is derived from MacOSX, which is from NextStep, which is from BSD UNIX.
Win2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 & 11 are NT (Win2K, XP, and Win2003 Server are NT 5.x). NT has variously run on MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, Alpha64 and Itanium (short lived). Win CE was at one stage a cut down NT and ran on ARM. HOWEVER, there has never been decent application support for anything other than x86 / x86-64 and in the days of NT 3.51, NT 4.0, Win2K and XP a lot of the business applications were hastily recompiled Win 3.x to Win9x applications ignoring NT security features and other NT features such as Named Pipe Creation. Often had to be run as Administrator.
The worst thing for small businesses and NT was the release of Win9x as a PC OS rather than dedicated gaming console. Set back quality and security bay maybe 10 years.