> This might be the ancient ancestor of the technology that Apple uses to run x86 binaries on their M1 ARM-based chips
Surely such an ancestor would be based on Apple's 68k->PPC transition in the mid-90s or its PPC->x64 transition in the 00s.
Surely such an ancestor would be based on Apple's 68k->PPC transition in the mid-90s or its PPC->x64 transition in the 00s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_S...
I really wish they had done PA-RISC. I still have some orphaned software on that platform.
It looks like Rosetta emerged from Quick Transit, and was eventually borged into IBM.
Do you not think Apple looked at the prior art before writing that translator? Of course they did.
"Great artists steal" -- indeed they do.