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What's computer architecture? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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Is it a physical structure of the chip or is it programming? Because how can linux ARM run on a device that used to run windows x86?

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[–] SteveTech 3 points 5 months ago

Because how can linux ARM run on a device that used to run windows x86?

Have you misread AMD64 as ARM64?

AMD64 is the 64bit extension of x86, often also called x86_64.

As others has said, ARM is a completely different architecture which is not compatible with x86 without translation layers. ARM also has a 64bit version called ARM64 (or AArch64).