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		greyhair on May 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac... ARM's first explosion was in PDAs, not running Linux. SA110 and XScale. A ton of ARM hardware is embedded cores running VxWorks or EmBed. M0 through M4. Yes, Phones are the dominant core consumer here, but there is a whole bunch of embedded/IoT stuff shipping ARM cores every day that will never see Linux installed.

philistine on May 21, 2021 | [–]

And it's always fun to remember ARM's second explosion: Nintendo. For a while, the most popular device using ARM was the Game Boy Advance.

dylan604 on May 21, 2021 | [–]

>that will never see Linux installed.

Right up until you see someone run Doom on it.

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