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Almost all CPUs that have been used in personal computers since 1981 have been capable of supporting a desktop environment of some sort. This includes the Intel 8088 and descendants, the Motorola 68000, SPARC processors, PowerPC processors, ARM processors, Itanium processors, and Alpha processors. There are hundreds of models within each family, making a list of all of the ones that could support a desktop environment implausible.

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