bpo-41100: Update Whatsnew and installer ReadME for 3.9.1 (GH-23472)

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-\f1\b \ul Other changes\
+\f1\b \ul macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) and Apple Silicon Mac support [new in 3.9.1]\
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+\f0\b0 \ulnone \
+As of 2020-11, macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) is the latest release of macOS and one of its major features is the support of new Apple Silicon Macs that are based on the ARM64 CPU architecture specification rather than the Intel 64 (x86_64) architecture used previously. There are other changes in Big Sur that affect Python operation regardless of CPU architecture. As of 3.9.1, Python binaries from python.org fully support Big Sur. \
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+python.org binaries for macOS have been provided via a downloadable installer that supports the Intel 64 architecture on macOS 10.9 and newer.  This installer variant remains the default download for 3.9.1;  it will install and run on all Macs that run macOS 10.9 or later, including 11.0 (Big Sur). This variant should run transparently on new Apple Silicon Macs using Apple's Rosetta 2 emulation. \
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+Beginning with 3.9.1, we also provide a new "universal2" installer variant that provides universal binaries for both ARM64 and Intel 64 architectures and is also supported on all Macs that support macOS 10.9 or later.  Some of the advantages of the new installer variant: native ARM64 code on Apple Silicon Macs should run significantly faster than Rosetta2-emulated code; some operating system functions and options introduced in macOS releases since 10.9 are now exposed when available (primarily in the os module); binary wheels built for use with the current 10.9 variant *should* also work with the new variant; the new installer variant includes Tcl/Tk 8.6.10 rather than 8.6.8.\
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+Because of the scope of changes needed to fully support 11.0 and Apple Silicon Macs, the new "universal2" variant should be considered 
+\f2\i experimental
+\f0\i0  in the 3.9.1 release. You may need to upgrade third-party components, like pip, to later versions once they are released. You may experience differences in behavior in IDLE and other Tk-based applications due to using the newer version of Tk.  As always, if you encounter problems when using this installer variant, please check {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "https://bugs.python.org"}}{\fldrslt https://bugs.python.org}} for existing reports and for opening new issues.\
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+Other changes\
 
 \f0\b0 \ulnone \
 For other changes in this release, see the