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No, including an interpreter like they did (Rosetta) was an alternative.The downside of including an interpreter with no end of life expectations is that some companies get lazy and will never update their software to modern standards. Adobe is a prime example. They would have gladly stuck with Carbon forever if Apple hadn’t changed their minds about a 64 bit version of Carbon.
That was the sane reason that Jobs made it almost impossible to port legacy text based software to early Macs. Microsoft jumped onboard developing Mac software and Lotus and WordPerfect didn’t early on.
But today you would have to have emulation software for Apple //es, 68K, PPC and 32 bit and 64 bit x86 software and 32 bit and 64 bit ARM (iOS) software all vying for resources.
Today because of relentlessly getting rid of backwards compatibility, the same base OS can run on set top boxes, monitors (yeah the latest Apple displays have iPhone 14 level hardware in them and run a version of iOS), phones, tablets, watches and AR glasses.
Someone has to maintain the old compatibility layers and patch them for vulnerabilities. How many vulnerabilities have been found in some old compatible APIs on Windows?
The downside of including an interpreter with no end of life expectations is that some companies get lazy and will never update their software to modern standards. Adobe is a prime example. They would have gladly stuck with Carbon forever if Apple hadn’t changed their minds about a 64 bit version of Carbon.
That was the sane reason that Jobs made it almost impossible to port legacy text based software to early Macs. Microsoft jumped onboard developing Mac software and Lotus and WordPerfect didn’t early on.
But today you would have to have emulation software for Apple //es, 68K, PPC and 32 bit and 64 bit x86 software and 32 bit and 64 bit ARM (iOS) software all vying for resources.
Today because of relentlessly getting rid of backwards compatibility, the same base OS can run on set top boxes, monitors (yeah the latest Apple displays have iPhone 14 level hardware in them and run a version of iOS), phones, tablets, watches and AR glasses.
Someone has to maintain the old compatibility layers and patch them for vulnerabilities. How many vulnerabilities have been found in some old compatible APIs on Windows?