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The transition to PowerPC only worked, as I recall, because Metrowerks wrote a compiler to handle the heavy lifting.


Non-PowerPC software was run in emulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_68k_emulator

But yes, Metrowerks saved their bacon by providing the only PowerPC compiler for quite a long time, IIRC.


Yes, and the emulation was awful prior to the G3


As long as you ignore the whole 68K emulation that was built in.




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