I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 359. Here are my solutions to them.
1: Could in theory be 995 or unreal apparatus for running old macOS.
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VM
Could in theory be 995 (Roman numerals VM, although that’s not how the Romans would have done it) or unreal (virtual) apparatus (machine) for running old macOS (one of their purposes).
2: More than a superlative manager at the heart of 1.
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Hypervisor
More than a superlative (hyper) manager (supervisor) at the heart of 1 (it’s central to virtualisation).
3: Unreal input and output from Rusty Russell for 1.
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Virtio
Unreal (virtual) input and output (I/O) from Rusty Russell (it was originally proposed by him) for 1 (it provides the device support for VMs).
The common factor
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They’re all involved in virtualisation on Apple silicon.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.