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Re:Apple Silicon and losing our legacy by mooreds on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:04PM (#25155426)
> Technology can't simultaneously progress while still remaining backwards-compatible for years or decades.

Tell that to people running DOS programs: https://blog.storagecraft.com/dos-quite-dead/

It's a choice that Apple gets to make. And that consumers, who buy or don't buy from Apple, get to make too.

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Re:Apple Silicon and losing our legacy by erik_seaberg on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:55PM (#25155875)
This is the problem. They could bundle an emulator for old hardware, but they don’t bother. Why should they? Customers are signaling a willingness to buy new hardware that simply won’t run some of their software.
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Re:Apple Silicon and losing our legacy by khazhoux on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:16PM (#25155514)
That was my comment you're replying to, and yup: I have a full Amiga development environment on my Macbook. Good times!
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