[X4U] "Backwards Compatibility"

Linda xpressobean at mac.com
Fri Jun 20 20:24:57 PDT 2008


On 6/20/08 3:13 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> Good luck trying to run SheepShaver
> (<http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/sheepshaver>) on an ICBMf
> (Intel-chip-based Mac). AFAICT, it won't and it's last update was May 06.

What makes you say it won't? The site you link to says this:

> PowerPC G4 emulation on non-PowerPC platforms, direct execution otherwise

and this:

> SheepShaver 2.3-Pre (14.May.2006)
> Linux/i586 (glibc 2.2, gcc 3.2.X, RPM)
> Linux/x86_64 (glibc 2.3, gcc 3.4.X, RPM)
> MacOS X (Universal Binary)
> Windows NT 4/2000/XP (SDL, ZIP)
> Sources: [ tar.bz2 ] [ rpm ]

Doesn't "Universal Binary" mean that it's written for both PowerPC and iNtel
platforms?




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