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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by fzzzy on Saturday November 05, 2016 @05:25PM (#12881972)
Apple's done two architecture changes already. Both 68k backwards compatibility on PowerPC and Rosetta PPC backwards compatibility on Intel worked well.
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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by w4 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @06:05PM (#12882163)
> Rosetta PPC backwards compatibility on Intel worked well

Rosetta worked, but I don't know if I'd say it worked well. It was brutally slow to the point of being unusable with some apps on mid/low end Macs.

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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by DonHopkins on Saturday November 05, 2016 @06:39PM (#12882309)
Don't forget the architecture change from the 6502 to the 68000!
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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by petecox on Saturday November 05, 2016 @07:00PM (#12882390)
They never provided CPU emulation for that.

Their solution for Mac LC was effectively an Apple IIe shrunk down to a PDS expansion card.

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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by DonHopkins on Saturday November 05, 2016 @07:14PM (#12882433)
There were some good third party Apple ][ emulators for the Mac!
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