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throwaway884840
7y ago
> In the past they managed to keep compatibility while switching operating systems ("Classic") and CPU architectures (68k -> PPC, PPC -> Intel). The Classic Environment (OS 9 -> OS X) was dropped after 6 years. Rosetta
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throwaway884840
7y ago
> This is quite curious. Apple inconvenienced so many users by "removing" 32-bit support on Catalina, and then they added support for local descriptor tables? I'm not aware of any use of LDTs on modern systems (except perh