[...]Lots of snipping here . . .
As I mentioned before, I got into Macs after OS X, then I got
interested in the OS's history and got an SE/30, with System 6 & System
7 floppies, and who-knows-what on the HD (I forget).
5) Any Mac OS that basically has to go into an emulator mode to run "classic" Mac programs is *not* a Mac OS - at least to me. Perhaps "emulator" isn't the right word - I'm not a programmer or an OS expert. But that's what it seems like to me.
So I guess you're not a fan of *any* Mac OS that runs on a PowerPC, is that it? See, Mac OS on PPC includes a Motorola m68k emulator for two reasons: first, because for early (and perhaps all) PPC versions of "classic" Mac OS, not all of the OS was ported to PPC (that is, much of it was still m68k code); and second, to enable it to run m68k Mac programs. I'm not sure if even OS 9 got rid of all of the 68k code... perhaps there are others more knowledgeable than I who know this bit of trivia.
Eagle
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