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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by shadowgovt on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:49PM (#32475169)
Nowadays it's emulators all the way down.

On most of these architectures the software eventually executes as x86 machine code, and the distance between x86 machine code and the actual processes inside a modern CPU implementing the x86 code set is so vast you can call a modern CPU an "x86 emulator built in hardware."

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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by broodbucket on Monday August 15, 2022 @09:47PM (#32478317)
Entirely accurate. Also makes it easier to have a firmware/microcode update that gives you a new instruction.
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