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by clacke2 1772 days ago
This is what IBM did with IBM i / AS/400 / System/38 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i#TIMI.

IBM i is on a POWER CPU today, but can still run System/38 binaries from the 70s, thanks to install-time compilation to whatever CPU the system is running this decade.