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viro
on June 22, 2020
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Apple announces it will switch to its own processo...
am I stupid? how are they running a x86 vm on ARM...
monocasa
on June 22, 2020
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Are they, or is it an aarch64 build of Linux they showed?
eli
on June 22, 2020
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Emulation? I assume using the same kind of tech that let x86 run old PowerPC apps
ebg13
on June 22, 2020
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The same way they ran m68k code on PowerPC CPUs and PowerPC code on x86 CPUs.
donarb
on June 22, 2020
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Rosetta. Apple knows processors, ARM is just a licensed instruction set.
donarb
on June 22, 2020
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To be clear, it's not a virtual machine. Rosetta translates x86 instructions to ARM instructions on the fly.
foobiekr
on June 22, 2020
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I wonder if this is actually even related to the original Rosetta (which was actually an external vendor - QuickTransit by Transitive), acquired by IBM. Most of the Transitive team left IBM to go to Arm and Apple.
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