On 10/06/2011, at 4:28 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
> Following Ronni's words of wisdom on preparing for Lion I had a look at my > applications with System Profiler. A number are marked as "Native > (preferred) or Classic" > What exactly does this mean? For example, Corel Painter 8 is so marked and > runs happily in 10.5.8 Leopard. > I am not looking at Lion but just curious > Severin Crisp > It's access to the Rosetta frameworks in current versions of Mac OS X that makes this possible, and it's the support for Rosetta which is disappearing in Lion, and consequently the support for such legacy software. Anything marked "Intel" or "Universal" will continue to work in Lion, since those items do not require Rosetta. Rosetta is a technology which creates a link between the Intel processor in your modern Mac and the PowerPC code in your older apps, which by themselves are incompatible with Intel processors, just as Intel-only apps are incompatible with PowerPC processors such the G4 and G5. Universal apps contain both Intel code and PowerPC code, allowing them to run in either environment. There is no corresponding bridging software which allows an Intel-only app to run on a PowerPC processor. With the release of Lion, Apple are putting the final nail in the coffin of the PowerPC Mac. Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
