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actionfromafartoday at 7:49 PM1 replyview on HN

Power Macs had an x86 emulator which ran the x86 ROM in PCI cards.


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mjg59today at 8:18 PM

I don't think that's true? Macs were running Open Firmware, they had an expectation of the same Forth code that Suns made use of, and several cards needed to be flashed with Apple firmware to be Mac compatible. Alphas definitely ran x86 video card init code under emulation, though.

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