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by notreallyauser 1094 days ago
Microsoft would need to do their part in the OS, but Apple reportedly didn't do all of Rosetta in house. (IBM now owns the start-up reported to have done the core.)
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> Apple reportedly didn't do all of Rosetta in house

You're talking about the 2011 version of Rosetta that allowed Intel Macs to run PPC software.

>QuickTransit was a cross-platform virtualization program developed by Transitive Corporation. It allowed software compiled for one specific processor and operating system combination to be executed on a different processor and/or operating system architecture without source code or binary changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit