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		dwaite on March 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the... 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 on March 18, 2022 [–]

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.

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