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A comment on Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel. Parent comment

Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by gaius on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:54PM (#16737937)
It’s true that Apple fumbled 68k —> PPC as far as MPW went but it’s also true that creating fat binaries was a total non-issue with CodeWarrior. Apple had learnt from that mistake for PPC —> x86
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by ghazak on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:00PM (#16738007)
The difference is that the x86 chips were so much faster than what they had for PPC, that they could still emulate it without customers feeling like they were going backwards.
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