Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Oct 2008 14:19 UTC
Netbooks use various types of processors, but most of them are built around Intel's Atom processor and architecture. There are more exotic options, such as the Chinese Longsoon processor, but those are quite rare and hard to come by - and certainly not as powerful. Apparently, another contender is preparing to enter the netbook processor market. Say hello to ARM.
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2005-08-28
You'd think so; (I read somewhere that the ARM architecture was designed for, or in parallel with, RiscOS) but it's been brought up in the past on OSNews that RiscOS has no memory protection, preemptive multitasking, or multi-user support... It's basically another AmigaOS 3 or MacOS 7; amazingly capable for its time or even after, but lacking internal features people expect nowadays.
As for size, I've mostly resigned myself that we're not going to see those tiny OSes with megabyte footprints any more, unless we're ok with giving up a lot of features...
Edited 2008-10-23 22:00 UTC