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		macintux on June 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple executes its invisible... The transition to PowerPC only worked, as I recall, because Metrowerks wrote a compiler to handle the heavy lifting.

robterrell on June 13, 2019 | [–]

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.

NikkiA on June 14, 2019 | | [–]

Yes, and the emulation was awful prior to the G3

scarface74 on June 13, 2019 | [–]

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

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