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Mac Transition to Apple Silicon
- Pompidou 6y agoReuters is to information what HN is to Apple.
- Someone 6y ago“The transition is the third time Apple has migrated Macintosh to a new instruction set architecture (ISA). The first was the switch from the Mac's original Motorola 68000 series architecture to the new PowerPC platform” There also, very early on (In 1980, so prerelease, possibly before the name was picked and much software was written) was a switch from the 6809E to the 68000 (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Five_Different_Macs.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...)