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Rosetta. Apple knows processors, ARM is just a licensed instruction set.
by donarb 6y ago
Rosetta. Apple knows processors, ARM is just a licensed instruction set.
- donarb 6y agoTo be clear, it's not a virtual machine. Rosetta translates x86 instructions to ARM instructions on the fly.
- foobiekr 6y agoI wonder if this is actually even related to the original Rosetta (which was actually an external vendor - QuickTransit by Transitive), acquired by IBM. Most of the Transitive team left IBM to go to Arm and Apple.