• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      They really don’t. A emulator is doing all of the hardware in software. A translator is just converting instructions.

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        3 months ago

        By that definition, qemu-[architecture] is a translator. qemu-system-[architecture] is an emulator.

        And it’s still a worse translator than Rosetta. Because Rosetta cheats.