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by a3w 1417 days ago
Linus' third time using ARM64, once ``a decade+ ago when the Macbook Air was the only real thin-and-lite [machine] around'', confuses me. The original Macbook Air and successor a decade ago used Intel IIRC?

<edit>Wikipedia agrees with my memory.</>

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Quoting directly from the text:

> It's the third time I'm using Apple hardware for Linux development

No mention of ARM64 there.

Oh, I misinterepreted. How do I delete my old posting...

Although Apple branded hardware is not apple developed hardware, so I read that in a different way. But now I realize that PowerPC was not an Apple Development, too, so he means Apple branding. So in my head, this is his first time of using Apple hardware (CPU, not keyboard, casing, etc.) for kernel compilation.

Thanks Apple for insisting that "this is the first Apple hardware" for clamshell laptops in your PR statements.

He said "It's the third time I'm using Apple hardware" (i.e macs, not arm64)
Third time using Apple Hardware.