[X4U] Apple to move to Intel

Michael Winter winter at mac.com
Mon Jun 6 07:45:52 PDT 2005


On Jun 4, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Nick Scalise wrote:

>
> The PowerPC had an emulator so that all 68k apps worked reasonably  
> well without any re-compiling.

Just to clarify, IIRC the emulator was a software emulator, not part  
of the PPC. And the only reason they were able to get away with it as  
well as they did was because the PPC was much faster than the chip it  
was replacing. IMO that wouldn't be true in this case.

-Mike


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