On Aug 30, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Profile <[email protected]> wrote:
Today I installed Snow Leopard on the computer that I allow visitors
to use, so there are few programs on this machine, however Quicken
is used so once the install was over I tried to start Quicken, I was
given a dialogue box saying that "Rosetta" would need to be
installed, I said yes. Then I could start Quicken.
Is Rosetta an emulation program of some sort, and will it need to be
installed unless a program is written in 64 bit? Need info. to
determine if I want to go ahead and install on the other computers
at this time. If all programs are finally written for 64 bit is it
hard to uninstall Rosetta?
Rosetta has been in all versions of OS X since Tiger was made to run
on Intel boxes. It is code that emulates PowerPC code on an Intel box.
It is still required in Snow Leopard so that you can run older
software and would it have been easier on everyone if it was installed
by default. It is not, however. You can tell the installer to turn it
on when you do the install, or SnoLeo will install it for you when it
finds it needs it--asking politely first, though, as you discovered.
j.
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