On 4/12/21 12:05 PM, Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote:
Anything that the system can run, no matter how it does that, is acceptable.
If a system noticed a VAX format a.out, it could load a vax simulator, and
run the binary that way, without the user even noticing. If it wanted.
You just described basically how macOS runs Intel binaries on M1 hardware,
and how Intel hardware ran PowerPC binaries before that. No mystery here.
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