Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 08:59:10

On 21 Apr 2022 at 09:45a, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>  2t>> ...and you still can, via emulation.  The M1 is powerful enough to
 Ni>  2t>> emulate x86-64.
 Ni> 
 Ni>  Sp> Its got Rosetta built into the CPU silicon. It can out perform any in
 Ni>  Sp> powered mac using this translation layer while only managing ~80% of
 Ni>  Sp> native chip performance.
 Ni> 
 Ni> It's in the CPU itself? 

No.

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

Rosetta 2 is software that does binary translating from
x86 instructions to ARM.  It is a software component.  It
does not support e.g. booting Windows natively.

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

Rosetta 2 is similar.

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