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Re:MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon by saagarjha on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:50PM (#29717977)
> But actually, I personally believe that the actual reason Apple killed 32bit support was because they didn't want to build it into Rosetta.

Rosetta 2 contains functionality to correctly emulate 32-bit Intel code.

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Re:MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @05:15PM (#29718929)
It's not the 32 bit code though, it's all the old libraries (carbon) which happen to also be 32 bit.
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Re:MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon by saagarjha on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:48AM (#29722820)
Right. The 32 bit emulation is only really useful to CrossOver.
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