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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by throw0101a on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:03PM (#23604483)
> […] not realizing they have a very limited lifespan.

It may depend on one's definition of "limited": the Rosetta was first released with Mac OS 10.4 in 2005, [1][2] and was last available in Mac OS 10.6, which first released in 2010, [3] but whose last update was in 2011.

Six years of transitional support is not unreasonable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by fomine3 on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:34PM (#23609387)
Nowadays we can use a same computer for around 8 years easily if we bought with decent spec.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by tinus_hn on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:38PM (#23605218)
Rosetta is for the other case where you want to run old software on a new machine. This is about running new software on an old machine.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by throw0101a on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:52PM (#23607874)
> This is about running new software on an old machine.

New software will be cross-compiled with both instruction sets:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by tinus_hn on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:08PM (#23608005)
Great until there is no more OS support for computers running your computers instruction set. Rosetta does not help with that.
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