macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions

Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions by mikhailt on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:31PM (#20251273)

IIRC, you could still run these apps on Snow Leopard in VirtualBox by using Rosetta. It's PITA but I would still say they should offer Snow Leopard image for the purpose of having Rosetta support.

I'm not saying Apple will do anything like this but it would be nice of them to do it.

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Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions by msbarnett on Saturday June 22, 2019 @04:29PM (#20251563)

Rosetta relied on a binary recompilation technology they licensed from Transitive. IBM bought it up and changed the licensing such that it was no longer economical for Apple to ship it, which is why it dropped really suddenly.

Free copies of Snow Leopard would likely cost them a lot in fees to IBM

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Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions by bdcravens on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:36PM (#20251310)

Maybe a point in time image wouldn't be a bad thing, but what do you mean by "that'll be maintained forever"? That it'll be downloadable, or that Apple should be responsible for security updates, etc, on those legacy OSes?

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