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		runjake on May 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ARM-based MacBook Air test sample spied x64 is a specific 64-bit derivative of the x86 architecture, ARM has it's own 64-bit arch. Microsoft is porting Windows 8 natively to ARM.

tobylane on May 29, 2011 [–]

True, but you got my point, calls that used to be purely written for x86 have been ported to run on ARM.

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