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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by rkangel on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:10AM (#27222157)
OSX is a different abstraction layer from processor architecture. Until recently Mac hardware was x86 and all the deployment targets were x86. A VM could take care of all the other differences.
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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by lmm on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:41PM (#27229245)
> OSX is a different abstraction layer from processor architecture.

It is, but it introduces enough differences that you're not "at home"; indeed I'd say OSX-to-Linux is a bigger difference for development than x86-to-ARM.

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