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throwawaysoxjjeyesterday at 7:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Because Apple been continuously doing deprecating hardware regularly since the mid 90s. And they’ll processor architecture every 10-15 years.

Microsoft was the backward compatibility king.


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MarsIronPIyesterday at 11:15 PM

Though it's kinda funny that Wine can run Windows applications that Windows can't.

Windows doesn't support 16bit apps anymore, but Wine (at least Wine <9.0) still does.