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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 saagarjha on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:49PM (#16738561)
I don't feel that the parent comment was "niche". This argument comes up every time anyone discusses a architecture switch, and the invariable response is that Apple has already done this twice before with an emulation layer.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by ascagnel_ on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:12AM (#16744277)
And, if anything, it's easier now than in the past. Most code has been abstracted away from the bare metal, so it's more a matter of porting runtime environments over (V8, JRE, etc) than it is rewriting apps.
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