<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 19, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Aron S. Spencer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>In the interest of accuracy:<br><br><<a href="http://www.apple.com/rosetta/">http://www.apple.com/rosetta/</a>><br><br>Not sure about FCP — it may have some hardware dependencies; but rosetta is designed to allow PPC apps to run on Intel Macs.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>For further clarification, I think there's been a mixup between Classic and Rosetta in the thread. My understanding (someone correct me if I'm wrong):</div><div><br></div><div>Classic allows OS9 (and earlier) apps to run in OS X. There is some overlap because some applications were written to run "natively" in both OS 9 & X. Classic does not run on Intel based Macs (or any Macs running OS X 10.5x). Classic bridges two different operating systems running on the same processor (PPC).</div><div><br></div><div>Rosetta allows OS X applications written for the PPC processor to run on Macs with an Intel processor. Since Classic was not ported to the Intel processor, applications that do not run "natively" under OS X will not run on Intel Macs. Rosetta bridges two different processors running OS X.</div><div><br></div><div>In short, Classic "translates" OS 9 programs to run in OS X, Rosetta "translates" (OS X native) PPC applications to run on Intel Macs.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I know, there is no way to run "Classic applications" on an Intel Mac. I'm hoping this is where someone tells me I'm wrong, because I'd love a way to run Classic apps on an Intel Mac... though I believe there's a "Classic" emulator that runs under Windows that I could run using VMware Fusion....</div><div><br></div><div>-Mike</div></body></html>