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On Wed 10-Sep-2025 10:44a, Mortar M.@1:124/5016.0 said to Rug Rat:
MM>   Re: Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore
MM>   By: Rug Rat to Mortar M. on Tue Sep 09 2025 20:00:34

MM>  > Similar to what Apple did when they transitioned from the
MM> architecture...

MM> Which architecture was that?

680x0 -> PPC (Mostly developers would just write FAT code, IE applications
would contain code for both the legacy arhitecture and PPC.

PPC -> Intel.  PowerPC and to some extent legacy code ran in Rosetta, which
was a dynamic translator to execute code on the fly during the transition.

Intel -> Apple Silicone.  Similar methods were used when Apple went from Intel
to their own chips, called Rosetta II I believe.

Microsoft uses a similar method on the ARM64 version of Windows to run legacy
X64 code (In my oppinion, they do a slightly better job than Apple when
running legacy apps.  The only problem I run into when using Win11 ARM64 in a
VM on an Apple Silicone box is with legacy realmode drivers.).

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