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data-file-width="400" data-file-height="250" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Microsoft Word for PowerPC on Intel</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">Mac OS X</a> 10.4.4–10.6.8 (Intel)<br /><a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a> 11.0–present (ARM)<br /><a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> guest<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Binary_translation" title="Binary translation">Binary translation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emulator" title="Emulator">emulation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/102527">https://support.apple.com/en-us/102527</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Rosetta</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Binary_translation#Dynamic_binary_translation" title="Binary translation">dynamic binary translator</a> developed by <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a> for <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, an application compatibility layer between different <a href="/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture" title="Instruction set architecture">instruction set architectures</a>. It enables a transition to newer hardware, by automatically translating software. The name is a reference to the <a href="/wiki/Rosetta_Stone" title="Rosetta Stone">Rosetta Stone</a>, the artifact which enabled translation of <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyph" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian hieroglyph">Egyptian hieroglyphs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first version of Rosetta, introduced in 2006 in <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger" title="Mac OS X Tiger">Mac OS X Tiger</a>, was part of the <a href="/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_processors" title="Mac transition to Intel processors">Mac transition from PowerPC processors to Intel processors</a>, allowing <a href="/wiki/PowerPC" title="PowerPC">PowerPC</a> applications to run on <a href="/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93Intel_architecture" title="Apple–Intel architecture">Intel-based</a> Macs. Support for Rosetta was dropped with the release of <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Lion" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS X Lion">Mac OS X Lion (10.7)</a> in 2011. </p><p>Rosetta 2, introduced in 2020 as a component of <a href="/wiki/MacOS_Big_Sur" title="MacOS Big Sur">macOS Big Sur</a>, is part of the <a href="/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Apple_silicon" title="Mac transition to Apple silicon">Mac transition from Intel processors to Apple silicon</a>, allowing <a href="/wiki/X86" title="X86">Intel</a> applications to run on <a href="/wiki/Apple_silicon" title="Apple silicon">Apple silicon</a>-based Macs.<sup id="cite_ref-Switching_Verge_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Switching_Verge-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rosetta_(software)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Macintosh" class="mw-redirect" title="Macintosh">Macintosh</a> has used CPUs with several different <a href="/wiki/Instruction_set_architectures" class="mw-redirect" title="Instruction set architectures">instruction set architectures</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000_series" title="Motorola 68000 series">Motorola 68000 series</a>, <a href="/wiki/PowerPC" title="PowerPC">PowerPC</a>, Intel <a href="/wiki/X86" title="X86">x86</a>, and <a href="/wiki/ARM64" class="mw-redirect" title="ARM64">ARM64</a> in <a href="/wiki/Apple_silicon" title="Apple silicon">Apple silicon</a>. Each instruction set architecture is incompatible with its predecessor, necessitating a transition plan based on a software layer to <a href="/wiki/Emulator" title="Emulator">emulate</a> the previous instruction set on the succeeding one. </p><p>With the launch of <a href="/wiki/Power_Macintosh" title="Power Macintosh">Power Macintosh</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Mac_68K_emulator" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac 68K emulator">Mac 68K emulator</a> is part of <a href="/wiki/System_7" title="System 7">System 7.1.2</a> and later. This emulator uses PowerPC features and is embedded at the lowest levels of the operating system, integrated with the <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_nanokernel" title="Mac OS nanokernel">Mac OS nanokernel</a>. This means that the nanokernel is able to intercept PowerPC interrupts, translate them to 68k interrupts (then doing a mixed mode switch, if necessary), and then execute 68k code to handle the interrupts. 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It was embedded in <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger" title="Mac OS X Tiger">Mac OS X v10.4.4</a> "Tiger", the version that was released with the first <a href="/wiki/X86" title="X86">Intel</a>-based Macs, and allows many <a href="/wiki/PowerPC" title="PowerPC">PowerPC</a> applications to run on Intel-based Mac computers without modification. Rosetta is based on <a href="/wiki/QuickTransit" title="QuickTransit">QuickTransit</a> technology.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has no <a href="/wiki/Graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface">graphical user interface</a>, and launches as needed with no notification of the user, which led Apple to describe Rosetta as "the most amazing software you'll never see".<sup id="cite_ref-Rosetta_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rosetta-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rosetta is optionally installable in <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard" title="Mac OS X Snow Leopard">Mac OS X v10.6</a> "Snow Leopard".<sup id="cite_ref-AppleInsider:_Mac_OS_X_Lion_drops_Front_Row,_Java_runtime,_Rosetta_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AppleInsider:_Mac_OS_X_Lion_drops_Front_Row,_Java_runtime,_Rosetta-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rosetta is neither included nor supported in <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Lion" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS X Lion">Mac OS X Lion (10.7)</a> (released in 2011) or later, which therefore cannot run PowerPC applications.<sup id="cite_ref-AppleInsider:_Mac_OS_X_Lion_drops_Front_Row,_Java_runtime,_Rosetta_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AppleInsider:_Mac_OS_X_Lion_drops_Front_Row,_Java_runtime,_Rosetta-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because of the greater architectural differences between Intel and PowerPC processors, Rosetta operates at a higher level than the 68000 emulator does, as a <a href="/wiki/Userland_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Userland (computing)">user-level</a> program that can only intercept and emulate user-level code. It translates <a href="/wiki/PowerPC_G3" class="mw-redirect" title="PowerPC G3">G3</a>, <a href="/wiki/PowerPC_G4" title="PowerPC G4">G4</a>, and <a href="/wiki/AltiVec" title="AltiVec">AltiVec</a> instructions, but not <a href="/wiki/PowerPC_G5" class="mw-redirect" title="PowerPC G5">G5</a> instructions. Although most commercial software for PowerPC-based Macs was compatible with these requirements (G4 systems were still widely used at the time), any applications that relied on G5-specific instructions had to be modified by their developers to work on Rosetta-supported Intel-based Macs. Apple advised that applications with heavy user interaction but low computational needs (such as <a href="/wiki/Word_processor" title="Word processor">word processors</a>) would be best suited to use with Rosetta, and applications with high computational needs (such as games, <a href="/wiki/AutoCAD" title="AutoCAD">AutoCAD</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop" title="Adobe Photoshop">Photoshop</a>) would not.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pre-existing PowerPC versions of Apple "Pro" media-production applications (such as <a href="/wiki/Final_Cut_Pro" title="Final Cut Pro">Final Cut Pro</a>, Motion, Aperture, and Logic Pro) are not supported by Rosetta and require a "crossgrade"<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to a <a href="/wiki/Universal_binary" title="Universal binary">universal binary</a> version to work on Rosetta-supported Intel-based Macs. </p><p>Rosetta also does not support the following:<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Classic_(Mac_OS_X)" class="mw-redirect" title="Classic (Mac OS X)">Classic environment</a>, and thus any <a href="/wiki/Carbon_(API)" title="Carbon (API)">non-Carbon application</a> built for <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_9" title="Mac OS 9">Mac OS 9</a> or earlier</li> <li>Code that inserts preferences into the System Preferences pane</li> <li>Applications that require precise exception handling</li> <li>Screen savers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kernel_extension" class="mw-redirect" title="Kernel extension">Kernel extensions</a> and applications that depend on them</li> <li>Bundled <a href="/wiki/Java_platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Java platform">Java</a> applications or Java applications with <a href="/wiki/Java_Native_Interface" title="Java Native Interface">JNI</a> libraries that cannot be translated</li> <li>Java applets in Rosetta-translated applications, meaning that a native Intel web browser application, rather than a legacy PowerPC version, must be used to load Java applets</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rosetta_2">Rosetta 2</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rosetta_(software)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Rosetta 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks hlist"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><a href="/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Apple_silicon" title="Mac transition to Apple silicon">Mac transition to<br />Apple silicon</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Apple_M1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Apple M1"><img alt="The Apple M1" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Apple_M1.jpg/150px-Apple_M1.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Apple_M1.jpg/225px-Apple_M1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Apple_M1.jpg/300px-Apple_M1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1248" data-file-height="1489" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apple_silicon" title="Apple silicon">Apple silicon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Apple_silicon#M_series" title="Apple silicon">M series</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ARM_architecture_family" title="ARM architecture family">ARM architecture family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_2_binary" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal 2 binary">Universal 2 binary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosetta_2_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosetta 2 (software)">Rosetta 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Developer_Transition_Kit#Apple_silicon_Developer_Transition_Kit_(2020)" title="Developer Transition Kit">Developer Transition Kit</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:AppleARM" title="Template:AppleARM"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:AppleARM" title="Template talk:AppleARM"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:AppleARM" title="Special:EditPage/Template:AppleARM"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In 2020, Apple announced Rosetta 2 would be bundled with <a href="/wiki/MacOS_Big_Sur" title="MacOS Big Sur">macOS Big Sur</a>, to aid in the <a href="/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Apple_silicon" title="Mac transition to Apple silicon">Mac transition to Apple silicon</a>. The software permits many applications compiled exclusively for execution on <a href="/wiki/X86-64" title="X86-64">x86-64</a>-based processors to be translated for execution on Apple silicon.<sup id="cite_ref-Switching_Verge_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Switching_Verge-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are two ways to install Rosetta 2 on an <a href="/wiki/Apple_silicon" title="Apple silicon">Apple silicon</a> Mac: either by using the <a href="/wiki/Terminal_(macOS)" title="Terminal (macOS)">Terminal</a> to install the program directly, or by trying to open an application compiled for x86-64, which will open an installation window. </p><p>In addition to the <a href="/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation" title="Just-in-time compilation">just-in-time</a> (JIT) translation support, Rosetta 2 offers <a href="/wiki/Ahead-of-time_compilation" title="Ahead-of-time compilation">ahead-of-time compilation</a> (AOT), with the x86-64 code fully translated, just once, when an application without a universal binary is installed on an Apple silicon Mac.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rosetta 2's performance has been praised greatly.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some benchmarks, x86-64-only programs performed better under Rosetta 2 on a Mac with an Apple M1 SOC than natively on a Mac with an Intel x86-64 processor. One of the key reasons why Rosetta 2 provides such a high level of translation efficiency is the support of x86-64 <a href="/wiki/Memory_ordering#Runtime_memory_ordering" title="Memory ordering">memory ordering</a> in the Apple M1 SOC.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The SOC also has dedicated instructions for computing x86 flags.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although Rosetta 2 works for most software, some software does not work at all<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or is reported to be "sluggish".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similar to the first version, Rosetta 2 does not normally require user intervention. When a user attempts to launch an x86-64-only application for the first time, macOS prompts them to install Rosetta 2 if it is not already available. Subsequent launches of x86-64 programs will execute via translation automatically. An option also exists to force a universal binary to run as x86-64 code through Rosetta 2, even on an ARM-based machine.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since <a href="/wiki/MacOS_Ventura" title="MacOS Ventura">macOS Ventura</a>, users running <a href="/wiki/Virtual_machine" title="Virtual machine">virtual machines</a> with <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Guest_operating_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Guest operating system">guest operating system</a> can make use of Rosetta 2 to run x86-64 code compiled for Linux,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> within the virtual machine. Rosetta 2 works as a runtime binary, which is required to be installed on the guest operating system. 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(August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rosetta_(software)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fat_binary#Apple's_fat_binary" title="Fat binary">Fat binary § Apple's fat binary</a> – combined 68k/PPC applications that run natively on both processors</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mac_68k_emulator" title="Mac 68k emulator">Mac 68k emulator</a> – a similar feature in <a href="/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">classic Mac OS</a> that translates <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000_series" title="Motorola 68000 series">680x0</a> instructions to <a href="/wiki/PowerPC" title="PowerPC">PowerPC</a> instructions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_binary" title="Universal binary">Universal 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