And, yes Classic (OS 9) is an emulator under OS X, just like Virtual PC.
No, it's not. Virtual PC has to emulate the processor, Classic doesn't (for a PowerPC application, for a 68k application it does, but the same thing happens when booted into OS 9).
Brian
Classic is more like a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) than an emulator. It runs a native PowerPC binary on the CPU, but isn't allowed to access hardware directly. That's why some of the older OS 8/9 apps that tried to take direct control of your hardware don't work in Classic but do when you boot a real OS 9 installation.
Well behaved apps use only the Mac OS APIs to talk to hardware (like using QuickTime to access capture devices instead of doing it directly). Those are generally the apps that run well in Classic.
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