Jope wrote:
Actually, that's inaccurate as well. They worked hard to get RID of 68K code on the legacy Mac OS. OS 7.6 was the first classic OS to have more PPC code than 68K code, and it wasn't until 8.0 that 68K was completely expunged.
:-D
Why can I run MacOS 8.0 in a 68k Mac emulator then? Even 8.1 works.
8.5 was the first PPC only MacOS..
What was thrown out in 8.0 was code supporting CPUs under 68030 (officially pre 040, but 8.0 and 8.1 have been shown to run on 030 Macs)
AFAIK, All versions of OS8 were distributed in both 68k and PPC versions...
They were developed in paralell, just as Apple is rumored to keep an x86 version of all it's OS'es.
(Well Darwin exist for PC aswell, right?)
