whabang wrote:
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?)
Of course Apple keep x86 (I imagine an x86-64 one) version of all the software.... Apple are not stupid, they probably have Sh*tHot PPC emulation in there as well, if the PPC bubble were to burst (not saying it will), they would jump ship in no time.
They probably have x86 versions of all their computer models in reserve too.
Apple (more specifically Steve Jobs) are a very clever company, and they would not let a simple thing like the death of a CPU get in their way.
