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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by grishka on Saturday October 07, 2023 @10:28AM (#37801976)
Microsoft can switch architectures though. I have an ARM64 Windows VM on my M1 mac. It runs x86 executables seamlessly and fast enough that you don't even notice that there's an emulation/translation layer underneath.
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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by top_sigrid on Saturday October 07, 2023 @10:52AM (#37802191)
Is this emulation layer inside of Windows or are you talking about Rosetta 2?
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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by rchiang on Saturday October 07, 2023 @11:56AM (#37802763)
The Windows 9x series (and earlier) were tightly coupled with x86 (and DOS).

The Windows NT family of operating systems has always had the "Hardware Abstraction Layer" (aka HAL) which helped with porting the operating system to other architectures.

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Re:Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of u... by grishka on Saturday October 07, 2023 @12:11PM (#37802914)
Inside of Windows. Rosetta can only do x86_64, this can run 32-bit x86 code as well.
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