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With the advent of any-arch binaries, and fast emulation (qemu wasm), it probably won't matter if it is x86 or not.
by galangalalgol 4y ago
With the advent of any-arch binaries, and fast emulation (qemu wasm), it probably won't matter if it is x86 or not.
- pjmlp 4y agoWhy advent? That was already standard on OpenSTEP.
- galangalalgol 4y agoCan you explain? I vaguely recall using it on sparc workstations a couple decades ago, but I wasn't coding for that target. A quick wiki read says it was an API framework that was "endian free" and that it trageted the three architectures that next ran on. Was it doing emulation for software using it? Or was it, itself a single binary? Or both?
- pjmlp 4y agoYou had all binaries on the same executable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O
- pasc1878 4y agoAnd NeXTStep OpenSTEP's predecessor had already implemented it.
- pjmlp 4y agoMight have been, I mentioned OpenSTEP, because NeXTSTEP didn't need to be cross platform, that requirement only came to be with the former.