Dailydave: Re: iPhone CPU

["Thomas Ptacek" <tqbf () matasano com>]

No question ARM is capable of running the iPhone, but OSX already
supports x86 and PPC, both of which (particularly PPC) are viable in a
phone setting.

I've written ARM assembly too and have to ask, why do people like it so much?

On 1/11/07, Jamie Riden <jamesr () europe com> wrote:
> On 11/01/07, Thomas Ptacek <tqbf () matasano com> wrote:
> > Ok, I'm going to extend my run of bad predictions and say that there's
> > an x86 part in here, not an ARM.
> Quite possible it's ARM - I think ARM will handle the load quite
> happily and as far as I'm informed, it's a lot nicer than x86 for
> embedded stuff.  (I used to write assembly code for ARM2 and 3 and
> it's a gorgeous instruction set to play with.)
>
> cheers,
>  Jamie
> --
> Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr () europe com / jamie.riden () gmail com
> NZ Honeynet project - http://www.nz-honeynet.org/
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