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> Well, with Rossetta and other technologies (heck, also Wine) that's just not true. Rosetta takes an instruction stream from another processor and translates
by chrisseaton 4y ago
> Well, with Rossetta and other technologies (heck, also Wine) that's just not true.
Rosetta takes an instruction stream from another processor and translates it to an instruction stream for another processor - that's exactly what I mean - it needs translation.
- coldtea 4y agoSure, and I know you know it. But it's exactly the availability of said translation that makes the claim "program for one processor's instruction set won't work on another processor" less clear cut than the "news flash" sarcasm implies. Doubly so since this translation is often automagical and transparent to the one using it (so they expect it to just work in all cases).