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		AstralStorm on Feb 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Spa... Most legacy software needs an emulator anyway. X86-64 and OS libraries are not sufficiently similar. Try running a Windows 95 era application on Windows 10. You can even have problems with Windows XP era stuff. And server space in general does not do legacy without keeping everything intact. The only real issue is lack of ARM developer PCs.

smush on Feb 22, 2019 [–]

Windows does make a huge attempt to make stuff backwards compatible, however. I run a copy of Cardfile copied from Windows NT4 on Windows 10 just fine.

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