ReactOS Achieves Experimental ARM64 Support, Boots on Apple Silicon via QEMU
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Summary
ReactOS, the open-source project aiming for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows, has achieved experimental support for running on 64-bit ARM (ARM64) architecture. The milestone was reached thanks to months of work by an open-source contributor. The experimental ARM64 build has been demonstrated booting as a QEMU virtual machine on an Apple ARM64 processor. ReactOS has traditionally supported i586 and AMD64 architectures.
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ReactOS has long catered to i586 and AMD64 while thanks to the work of an open-source contributor the past many months, ReactOS is now able to boot on ARM64.
The screenshot shown has the experimental ReactOS code booted as a QEMU virtual machine targeting an Apple ARM64 processor.
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