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		daxelrod on June 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong So that users can run all of their existing binaries. Both Mac processor architecture changes so far have included emulation or binary translation layers for this purpose. 68k -> PPC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_68k_emulator PPC -> x86: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)

ams6110 on June 9, 2017 [–]

With NeXT they had "fat" binaries to handle different processors. No emulating.

rlanday on June 9, 2017 | [–]

That does not solve the problem of existing binaries.

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