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Re:Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription... by doctor_eval on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:35PM (#30028848)
But has it worked continuously on contemporary platforms for the entire period of its existence? I reckon there were many years between the retirement of the original platform and your ability to emulate that platform.

The point is that software should remain usable, but in your example that hasn’t been the case.

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Re:Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription... by DarylZero on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:47PM (#30030426)
No, but that's because it's from 1983. It's only modern machines that have this awesome excess of power.

Apple did Rosetta in 2006. That proves this approach has been _commercially_ viable on top-end machines for at least 15 years. Not 39 years!

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