Linus Torvalds, Why Linux pioneer Linus Torvalds prefers x86 over ARM (October 7, 2016), Computerworld
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I've been personally pretty disappointed with ARM as a hardware platform, not as an instruction set, though I've had my issues there, too.
— Linus Torvalds on ARM
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About Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.
About Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.
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