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> the software I might want to use doesn’t support arm Doesn't Windows come with something like Apple's Rosetta to do on the fly translation? I expect it would
by criddell 5mo ago
> the software I might want to use doesn’t support arm
Doesn't Windows come with something like Apple's Rosetta to do on the fly translation? I expect it wouldn't work with games, but most other kinds of software should work.
Rosetta worked quite well for Apple so I would expect Microsoft could do something similar.
- thewebguyd 5mo agoYes, its called prism, supposedly Microsoft is making improvements to it also specifically to go along with this release. It's not as good as Rosetta 2 was, but its still pretty good. Problem is not everything runs through emulation though. There's still a lot of edge cases for super old enterprise crap.
- criddell 5mo agoI kind of find it hard to believe they would use the name prism... When I read it, the first thing I thought of is the NSA program named PRISM. Anyway, I was curious so I googled for differences between the Apple and Microsoft programs and Apple included x86 translation circuitry on their CPU. I wonder why Microsoft didn't do the same?
- thewebguyd 5mo agoProbably because MS wasn't involved in the silicon at all. The Snapdragon X Elite was entirely Qualcomm/Nuvia. Not sure why they skipped it though.