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   SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 (saramg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 01:19:00 JST SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈

   Apple CPUs be like:

   1976: Introducing our 6502 based computer.
   1986: Nevermind, we're all about 68000 now.
   1996: Motorola who? This is a PPC house.
   2006: PPC is dead, we're going x86.
   2020: Fine, we're making our own chips: Apple Silicon!

   Frankly, the move to M1 came four year late by their cadence.

   Meanwhile, PCs be like:

   1978: 8086
   1982: 80286
   1985: 80386
   1989: 80486
   1993: Pentium
   ...
   2023: Corei9-13905

   And the i9 can STILL run 8086 software.

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     SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 (saramg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 20:18:16 JST SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈

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     • Alerta! Alerta!

     @heiglandreas I mean, if we're gonna count emulation, I'm sure my watch could emulate an Apple ][e just fine. :p

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     Alerta! Alerta! (heiglandreas@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 20:18:23 JST Alerta! Alerta!

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     @saramg To be fair, the Intels could run PPC software (emulated) and the reason why they went intel is that they didn't get RISC processors in the amounts they needed. Otherwise there would never have been the intel intermezzo....