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Apple used Rosetta. I remember a version of Rosetta that was advertised to run SPARC/Solaris binaries on x86 under some sort of iBCS. https://en.m.wikipedia.or
by chasil 5y ago
Apple used Rosetta. I remember a version of Rosetta that was advertised to run SPARC/Solaris binaries on x86 under some sort of iBCS.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Standard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_S...
I really wish they had done PA-RISC. I still have some orphaned software on that platform.
It looks like Rosetta emerged from Quick Transit, and was eventually borged into IBM.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit