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A brief history of Mac architecture transitions (eclecticlight.co)
6 points by ingve 51 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> Much of the system was still in 68K code, so to enable its continuing use, and to allow the running of existing 68K apps, it came with a built-in 68K emulator.

I'm basically used to compatibility layers for applications, but it remains wild to me that they shipped a system where the OS relied on the same translation.




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