At 10:50 AM -0500 12/7/11, David Riley wrote:
I don't actually recall when they got rid of 68k
compatibility. My
recollection is that Classic (the OS 9 environment) did away with it
right out of the gate. Classic itself was deprecated in 10.5 (and
never implemented for Intel, since it was just a VM and not an
emulator) and finally terminated in 10.6 (which did away with PPC
native compatibility altogether, as well as the capability to
read/write HFS volumes, which was quite vexing when I had to write
to some floppies for older Macs). 10.7 did away with Rosetta, which
seemed a bit premature to me.
By the way, Rosetta Stone is a series of language education
software; Rosetta is the framework for PPC compatibility under Intel
processors. Slight difference, but I don't think any software is
going to run under Rosetta Stone. :-)
- Dave
68k & Classic compatibility was last available in 10.4.x, which is
why I stayed on that release as long as my dual 2Ghz G5 PowerMac was
running. The last version with Rosetta is 10.6.x, which is why the
Mac Pro that replaced the G5 is stuck at that version. I like
running Mac OS X, but I hate how every version takes away features I
depend upon.
Zane
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