In Snow Leopard, the first Intel-only version of Mac OS X, Rosetta wasn’t installed by default it would be downloaded and installed automatically the first time a PowerPC application launched, but the hand was already writing its ominous message on the wall. Now it was PowerPC that was emulated, using Rosetta.

Snap! When Macs started relying on Intel processors, support for Classic was dropped. Snap! When Mac OS X came along, all applications had to be rewritten, except for the lucky ones that could operate correctly inside the Classic emulator. The 68000 processor was dropped then the whole 68K processor family was superseded by Macs using PowerPC processors. It’s more like a series of rubber bands that get stretched to the breaking point and eventually snap. The history of Mac development is not like a plant that grows and branches and produces leaves and flowers.

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