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Originally Posted by pazos
Probably a few years. But hey, it's Apple, who knows?
In the last 20 years they moved from PPC-only binaries to "universal" PPC/x86 binaries, to x86_64-only. And now again to "universal" x86_64/arm binaries.
There are no limitations in place to restrict builds for arm only, so I guess it will depend on when they decide to kill x86_64 entirely as they recently did with x86.
People that want to run legacy software should avoid macOS entirely and stick with Windows or Linux, where is still possible to run software from the 90's.
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I do think there was no need for OSX to go 64-bit only. It just means that newer software won't run on older computers. And it also means older software that's nt getting a 64-bit upgrade won't run on newer computers.
Apple sometimes makes some really stupid decisions.