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<br><div><div>On Jun 21, 2008, "Zane H. Healy" <<a href="mailto:healyzh@aracnet.com">healyzh@aracnet.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Interesting how Apple has taken an OS that started out on the 68030, </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">had x86, Sparc, and PA-RISC support added for V3.1, then supported<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">all three through V4.2, at which point they removed 68k, Sparc and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">PA-RISC support to add in PPC support.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Zane-</div><div><br></div><div>I really would appreciate it if you had a citation for this, especially </div><div>x86 support.</div><div><br></div><div><div>I assume when you talk about support, you mean the ability to run</div><div>on computers with those chips (x86, Sparc, and PA-RISC). Never</div><div>happened until Boot Camp!</div><div><br></div><div>If you mean supporting emulators, that's a different matter.</div></div><div>X86 support ( and possibly the others) was provided by</div><div>people like Insignia with their PC emulators, and then later, by VPC. </div><div>This wasn't an Apple feature, and it always was kind of a last resort, </div><div>if you really, really needed to run a dark-side OS app on your Mac.</div><div><br></div><div>But the Mac OS never ran on anything other than the Motorola </div><div>68000 family until PPC and Intel. </div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div></body></html>