Discussion on forums confirms that older ARM-based netbooks and devices also relied on emulation for legacy Windows versions. For Research or Testing:
While you cannot run XP natively, you can still run it on ARM hardware via . windows xp arm64 iso
In 2023, a group of developers calling themselves The NT64 Initiative (unrelated to Microsoft) achieved the impossible: they successfully ran an x86-to-ARM64 emulated version of Windows XP on a Raspberry Pi 4 and Apple Silicon Macs. Discussion on forums confirms that older ARM-based netbooks