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tinus_hn on June 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple announces it will switch to its own processo...

Rosetta is for the other case where you want to run old software on a new machine. This is about running new software on an old machine.

throw0101a on June 22, 2020 [–]

> This is about running new software on an old machine.

New software will be cross-compiled with both instruction sets:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary

tinus_hn on June 22, 2020 | [–]

Great until there is no more OS support for computers running your computers instruction set. Rosetta does not help with that.

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