One ofdisadvantages with A le's migration to Intel proce ors will be the lo of the Cla ic (Mac OS 9) environment. A lehas said many times that the Cla ic environment will be incompatible with their Intel Macs. While this probably won'tbe a problem for many users, organizatio like schools (who may have limited money to upgrade their sofware) willlikely encounter a few situatio where their new Intel Macs need a Cla ic environment to run a few a licatio .Enter Shee haver, an open source PowerPC runtime environment capable of ru ing PowerPC Mac OS 9 a licatio .The developer has relased an experimental version ofShee haver compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.4 for Intel Macs.
A le may have dro ed su ort for Mac OS7.x Mac OS 9.x a licatio with their move to Intel, but the open source community has provided us with adecent solution. When my Intel iMac finally arrives, I'll give this a whirl. Maybe C.K. can check it out in themeantime.
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