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Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn’t that the point?

No, the point of Rosetta was to be a stop-gap for 3rd party software because Apple did all porting in-house software long ago.

Prism is Microsoft's tool for staying lazy. Microsoft ships ARM-based Surface tablets since 12 years!!!!!

In all architecture transitions (PPC->Intel then Intel->ARM), Apple Chess has always been a native port from day one.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I firmly maintain that if Microsoft gave a shit about ARM, they would be defaulting every one of their compilers to produce fat x86/aarch64 binaries. The reality is, however, that they don't care about the hardware so long as it is good enough.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    if Microsoft gave a shit about ARM, they would be defaulting every one of their compilers to produce fat x86/aarch64 binaries

    Wasn't the point of .NET once that native binary code isn't needed? I'd say if Microsoft gave a shit about ARM, everything would have been ported to .NET.

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