Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : Spectre
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 09:45:09

  Re: Re: Hackintosh
  By: Spectre to 2twisty on Thu Apr 21 2022 07:26 am

 2t>> ...and you still can, via emulation.  The M1 is powerful enough to
 2t>> emulate x86-64.

 Sp> Its got Rosetta built into the CPU silicon. It can out perform any intel
 Sp> powered mac using this translation layer while only managing ~80% of
 Sp> native chip performance.

It's in the CPU itself?  That would mean it could translate x86 to ARM fairly efficiently and transparently.  Would that also mean that you could potentially install an x86-compatible OS (such as Windows) and have it appear to run "natively" on it?

I'm a bit surprised, since the previous incarnation of Rosetta (when Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel) was a piece of software that was installed on Mac OS X.

Nightfox
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