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1. chjara :hakasenyan: :verified: (chjara@snowdin.town)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 04:11:11 JST chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:
   at this point really nothing short of divine intervention will kill off the PC
   apple got away with it not once, not twice, but thrice, because they effectively completely control their software and hardware ecosystem
   the x86 PC is like the opposite of that
   • rqsd (rqsd@borg.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 04:11:02 JST rqsd

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     @chjara@snowdin.town @koakuma@uwu.social https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180806-00/?p=99425
     The PowerPC is a RISC processor architecture which grew out of IBM’s POWER architecture. Windows NT support was introduced in Windows NT 3.51, and it didn’t last long; the last version to support it was Windows NT 4.0. Despite not being supported by the flagship operating system, it continued to be supported by Windows CE, and a later version of the PowerPC was chosen as the processor for the Xbox 360.

   • chjara :hakasenyan: :verified: (chjara@snowdin.town)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 04:11:04 JST chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:

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     • Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd
     @koakuma wait, PPC windows?
     i know about windows for MIPS, ARM, alpha, but did they ever do PPC stuff?
     
     
     actually the 360 runs NT, doesn't it, right
   • Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 04:11:08 JST Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd

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     @chjara Arm-only but still with ACPI, UEFI, and all the baggages from the PC platform and so on... just like their ports to PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS computers :hehehe:

   • chjara :hakasenyan: :verified: (chjara@snowdin.town)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 04:11:10 JST chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:

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     i guess if microsoft went "fuck you windows 12 is ARM-only" that'd force their hand
   • chjara :hakasenyan: :verified: (chjara@snowdin.town)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 04:11:29 JST chjara :hakasenyan: :verified:

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     • Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd
     @rqsd @koakuma i mean CE runs on everything
     but yea