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Clarified details around macOS version compatibility.
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source/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags.rst

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only refers to the major value. For example, a ``macosx_11_0_arm64`` indicates
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compatibility with macOS 11 or later, on arm64 (i.e., Apple Silicon) hardware.
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Recent macOS binaries distributed on Python.org are compiled with a minimum
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macOS compatibility version of 11.0, as macOS 11 (Big Sur) was the first release
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to support the ARM64 Apple Silicon architecture. Python binaries obtained from
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other sources may have a different compatibility version.
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macOS also supports the use of a combined, or "fat" architecture specification.
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For example, specifying an architecture of ``universal2`` indicates that
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binaries support *both* x86_64 *and* arm64.
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The minimum supported macOS version may also be constrained by architecture. For
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example, macOS 11 (Big Sur) was the first release to support arm64.
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