Re: newbie question ARM and windows
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de)
Date: 06/29/04
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Date: 29 Jun 2004 10:27:05 GMT
sebastian <malaka@email.it> wrote:
> i just saw that the new HP49G has an ARM running at 60MHz, and it got
> me thinking that my first computer was a 40MHz 386DX with 4MB of RAM
> and i remember i could run windows 3.1 on it. Does it means that i
> could run windows on an ARM running at 60MHz (not on the calculator of
> course)
Not for the typical meanings of the terms "run" and "Windows" you
can't. You can run specialized versions of a system superficially
similar to, but internally quite unlike regular Windows, on ARM CPUs
in the 200+ MHz range. The resulting system is called a "Pocket PC"
or "Windows Smartphone", depending on what version of Windows CE is on
it, and whether it has a mobile phone built into it. The major
problem in doing this yourself would be that individual developer
licences for Windows CE essentially don't exist.
> could i build a computer with an ARM? (i think Acorn computers were
> based on ARM) but i'd like to know if it'd be possible to build it
> from scratch
You may have to stretch the meaning of "possible" a bit, but: yes,
it's possible.
-- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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