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Re: RISC OS 5 (Open) and ARM64

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Subject: Re: RISC OS 5 (Open) and ARM64
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by: Sprow - Tue, 25 May 2021 22:15 UTC

On Friday, May 14, 2021 at 8:52:30 PM UTC+1, Sprow wrote:
> On Friday, May 14, 2021 at 7:07:12 PM UTC+1, Joseph Harley wrote:
> > if they are dealing with it, then I guess I can sleep easy.
> Don't sleep too long, the future is now.
> Acorn were asleep at the wheel thinking 26 bit would last forever,
> when it turned out only 1 more chip (StrongARM) supported it, then that was it!

And today's clutch of new ARMv9 processors
https://www.arm.com/company/news/2021/05/arm-total-compute-solutions-and-armv9-to-the-broadest-range-of-client-devices

specifically mentions "...all mobile big and LITTLE cores will be 64-bit only by 2023", which sounds reasonably close,
Sprow.

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