It was not built into the system from the very beginning. It was introduced in 10.5 I believe, and is an optional install with 10.6.
Rosetta Apps run slower than native Apps. I mean, Rosetta is running PPC code via a program called Rosetta. That is way different than Microsoft running Windows XP programs on basically the same hodge-podge Windows 7. Look, you can go Google Rosetta and learn all about it. Having an arm chaired philosophical discussion about why Apple is not something this list is for. Apple has said what is going to happen. No one is forcing you to run 10.7, and you can easily run older systems on Parallels if you really wanted to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software) On Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 27 Feb 2011 at 16:41, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > > > And that it bogs down the system. > > How does supporting Rosetta, which was built into OS X from the very > beginning (since it had to be) "bog down the system?" Surely if you > have no apps that need it, it won't be loaded, so it would only "bog > down the system" if you were running Rosetta-requiring apps, and in > that case, your choice would be "bog down the system" or don't use > the app. > > I don't see how this is in any way a reasonable objectiong, but maybe > you can provide some citations to some explanations about how what > you assert is actually true outside the context in which someone > would actually be running Rosetta apps. > > -- > David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com > David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
