[dwaite]

They went 32 bit x86 before adding support for amd64 bit and then eliminating 32 bit right before going to apple silicon (presumably in part motivated by rosetta 2 being optimized for translating amd64 software)

[cestith]

You're right. I'd forgotten about that. I haven't forgotten about the weird 64-bit-CPU-with-32-bit-EFI snafu, though. That was a pain.