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Why couldn't the M1 chip have been an Intel chip? Selling a metric boatload of chips?
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Wow.. there is a new chip maker on the block with impressive toys?! 
Damn, I want to run Windows on it! 
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But can it run Crysis?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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No, can it run DOOM?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Apple's M1 doesn't have 40 years of backward compatibility to contend with.
Any program written for an 8088 forty years ago can still run on the latest Intel CPU (assuming it is in the correct mode). Try that with other CPUs (if you can find them).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Once you code-kiddies get it out if your mind that computers were invented by Intel (CPUs on a chip, yes), you will realize that the IBM 360 series (designed in the early 1960s) has been code-compatible through it's various incarnations.
As are all the few remaining mainframe manufacturers. I guess the only one left is Unisys.
And if you take into account emulators, the IBM 360 could run even IBM 1401 assembler!
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That was never in anyone's mind. Get over yourself. When one can buy a 360 series CPU in a laptop you might have a point. Might. 
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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And how many computers capable of running System/360 assembler language have you seen around recently? Emulators don't count; we're discussing hardware here.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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an interesting hypothesis, but, aren't the most widely used Apple apps now running on intel chips carrying just as much of a "legacy-burden" ?
to the degree that current apps must be radically re-architected to take full advantage of the M1 whatever ... that compiler voodoo alone can't conjure miracles ... ?
it will be interesting to see how app re-writes go.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I've seen plenty of Marketing blurb, but no technical documents (programmer reference manuals and the like). Knowing Apple, I assume that they are only available under NDA.
Apple already has an emulator for Intel code. Why not treat the Intel code as an intermediate language, and use a JIT compiler to compile it to native M1 code? If Microsoft can do it for IL assembler, why can't Apple do it for the Intel assembly language?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Why not treat the Intel code as an intermediate language, and use a JIT compiler to compile it to native M1 code? If Microsoft can do it for IL assembler, why can't Apple do it for the Intel assembly language?
Easy for us to say 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Give Intel a break; they've been spending their effort on trying to make the world's slowest GPU. (They're also googling 7nm.)
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IBM, Red Hat and VMWare are among several companies that have come together to create the Inclusive Naming Initiative which aims to eliminate problematic language from projects and replace them with an agreed set of neutral terms. "I am he as you are he as you are me, and we are all together"
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Doubleplusgood
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Quite.
Righthink only please.
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Perhaps they should invest in education if a reference to a black leather book is putting people off 
Next, they'll want to eliminate compilers, algorithms and calculus because it scares potential students off 
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The massive number of useless emails sent every day apparently takes a substantial toll on the environment, the BBC reports. As a result, U.K. officials are expected to soon ask everyone to stop sending out messages unless they actually have something to say. But not this one (I hope)
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Where do you find gems like this? 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: U.K. officials are expected to soon ask everyone to stop sending out messages unless they actually have something to say.
Should it not just apply too for politic news / time in TV or stream services and the wasted bandwidth to transmit that and other bullsh1t non sense coming from them?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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We'd never hear from them ever again.
Wait. Maybe you're on to something! 
TTFN - Kent
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That should silence almost all politicos and journalists
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This will form the cassus belli for an email tax, in Boris's green Britain.
You heard it here first, folks.
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The failure of two main cables sealed the observatory’s fate The truth may be out there, but we won't be listening anymore
alas, ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The truth may be out there, but we won't be listening anymore
Not limited to extraterrestrials. We have that problem right here on planet earth. 
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