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		AgentOrange1234 on June 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: About the Rosetta Translation Environment Probably a big opportunity cost though. It surely takes a lot of time from senior engineers to port the software, figure out this whole translation system, etc...

scarface74 on June 24, 2020 [–]

The story was that it took two engineers to keep OS X compatible with Intel when they were on PPC.

It took only a small company - Connectix - to make a better 68K emulator that worked perfectly with PPC/Classic MacOS than Apple could.

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