I’ve seen people talking about it and experienced it myself with a server, but why does Linux run so well on ARM (especially compared to Windows)?

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    NeXT computers were based on Motorola 680x0 processors that were actually CISC ( not RISC ). Steve Jobs did run MacOS on RISC in the 90s though as that is what PowerPC was.

    Modern Apple silicon is of course ARM64 so not the same architecture as PowerPC at all.

    • Bene7rddso@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      NeXTStep ran on multiple architectures, some oft them RISC. They did some work on a PPC build too