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Apple doesn't really care much about backwards compatibility. I'm sure they will have an x86 emulator, but it probably won't be very fast (read: useless for gam
by babypuncher 8y ago
Apple doesn't really care much about backwards compatibility. I'm sure they will have an x86 emulator, but it probably won't be very fast (read: useless for games) and will probably be dropped entirely a few years down the line.
- xoa 8y ago>Apple doesn't really care much about backwards compatibility Depends on what you mean by "much". They have made good backwards compatibility an important part of every single architecture transition so far, and on the Mac there were good 3-4 year official transitions at least (the 68k emu still ran under Blue Box/Classic Environment so it lasted through 10.4 Tiger, Rosetta lasted through 10.6 Snow Leopard). And that's official, in practice there have continued to be longer last options. It's certainly not the degree that Microsoft has traditionally cared, but it's not at all been blown off either.
- AckSyn 8y agoIt would be on par with their previous backward compatible layer ala Rosetta from their Classic system to OS X ages ago. I'm hoping to have an A15X or so processor on my desk by 2020.