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		jchw on March 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When Apple Built a Mac OS Running on Top of Solari... I think qemu-user is a cleaner split due to the syscall interface being the barrier. IIRC, what Apple was doing was a bit more interesting because there wasn’t a clean boundary between what was emulated and what was native.

marcodiego on March 20, 2022 [–]

So it is like box86, which translates some API calls?

jchw on March 20, 2022 | [–]

If I’m not mistaken, System 7 itself was not entirely ported to PowerPC. So the OS itself still needed m68k emulation for some components.

But yes, box86 sounds a bit closer based on my understanding.

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