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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by edude03 on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:29PM (#16738314)
OSS software can "just" be recompiled though.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by thothamon on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:56PM (#16738645)
In theory yes, but back in the PPC days a lot of stuff was not available even though theoretically it could have been.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by super_mario on Monday April 02, 2018 @07:17PM (#16740346)
This was complicated by the fact that PPC was big endian and Intel is little endian. If software assumed byte order when twiddling bits, etc, you could not just recompile it.
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