On 6/11/09 4:32 PM, Kris Tilford at <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 11, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Dan wrote: > >> As emulators go, Rosetta - the black box that makes PPC stuff run on >> x86 Macs - is pretty good. > > Now we need the opposite emulator, the one that will allow future > Intel x86 only code to run on our PPC Macs. I doubt this will ever > exist, but it would certainly be welcomed.
Well, the Macintosh is no stranger to CISC/x86 emulation! CISC emulation was already present in the PowerPC/Classic Mac OS era in order to run Motorola 68k applications. And x86 emulation was used on Windows-emulation programs like VirtualPC. -- MaGioZal. <http://flickr.com/photos/magiozal/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
