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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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