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Back in the early days of Windows NT everywhere, the Alpha version had a similar JIT emulation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32

Or for a more technical deep dive,

https://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usen...

OMG I forgot about FX!32. My first co-op was as a QA tester for the DEC Multia, which they moved from the Alpha processor to Intel midway through. I did a skunkworks project for the dev team attempting to run the newer versions of Multia's software (then Intel-based) on older Alpha Multias using FX!32. IIRC it was still internal use only/beta, but it worked quite well!

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