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Comment So it's basically a GBA-era ARM chip without thumb (Score 2) 78

The article mentions that it is compatible with the ARMv2a instruction set, though it may not be implemented the same way regarding pipelining and caching. The ARMv2a instruction set is basically the same instruction set as the ARM7TDMI, but without THUMB, and without the BX instruction. Any pure ARM code that doesn't use newer features (such as saturating arithmetic) should work on it fine. GCC should support this with no problems.

Comment Expensive (Score 2) 295

The best reason I can think of not to buy a 10-gigabit Ethernet card is simple: The cheapest ones go for $351 on Newegg. Want an Ethernet switch to go with that? That will be $1036.

So once again, the answer is simple, and it has to do with a dollar sign.

Gigabit equipment got really cheap fairly quickly, but not so much for the 10-gigabit equipment.

Comment Fixing RT (Score 1) 578

The easiest way to fix Windows RT is to make the desktop actually work, and allow running unsigned ARM code. Let developers recompile their programs for ARM, and they will do it.
Maybe throw in compatibility for Windows CE programs, or better yet, throw in an X86 emulator.

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