This sounds encouraging at least :) lets hope we can save x11 one more time. A 
pre-built would still be easier than compiling via macports etc. any reason why 
no-one make new binary bundles?

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> On Jun 25, 2020, at 6:58 PM, Jonathan Prescott via X11-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The “whole bunch more” is the customization of the ARM architecture, memory 
> system enchancement, new GPU architectures, core designs, controller designs, 
> Neural Engine and other specialized processors all on one chip (4 nm TSMC 
> fab).  The only thing that is “ARM” is the instruction set architecture.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
>> On Jun 25, 2020, at 6:42 PM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thursday June 25 2020 16:21:36 Jonathan Prescott wrote:
>> 
>> Peachy O:-)
>> 
>> I guess it was coming, giving how they've been making them behave more and 
>> more like giant iPads with keyboards and such...
>> Oh well, it was already clear that I'd never buy a new Mac anymore.
>> 
>>> Based on the announcements at WWDC, Macs are going to transition to “Apple 
>>> Silicon” based on Apple implementation of ARM64, plus a whole bunch more
>> 
>> One *could* read this as "a whole bunch of other computer makers are going 
>> to transition" and "Apple will become a silicon pusher". That (the 1st bit) 
>> *would* be interesting...
>> 
>> Either way I assuming there will be a new Rosetta framework, so for some 
>> time at least existing x86 applications should continue to function more or 
>> less normally. I seem to remember that XQuartz/PPC ran quite properly under 
>> Rosetta, am I wrong?
>> 
>> R.
>> 
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