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		kev009 on June 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 e... IBM sold an x86 translation for a while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVM_Lx86. Would be interesting to know why it was discontinued.

mrpippy on June 11, 2017 [–]

That is odd. IBM bought Transitive and owns the tech (so no ongoing license fees to pay) and I would thimk that x86 binary support for POWER would still be a useful migration tool.

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