Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/05

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Subject: [Leica] Snow Leopard Warning
From: john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:23:13 +1300
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Thanks my last PPC (original G4 MBP) had to be tricked (CPU speed) into even
running 10.5 so wasn't sure.

john

-----Original Message-----

Snow Leopard doesn't run on PPC machines, last OS to run on those was 10.5.8
aka Leopard.
Still have a couple of those lovely G5 machines for Server and scanning
stations.

All the best from Paris!

Tarek



Le 4 f?vr. 2012 ? 20:58, John McMaster a ?crit :

> No, OSX ran on Power PC machines (there were some CPU restrictions) 
> until Snow Leopard/10.6 which was the last. The code for Intel/PPC 
> started with
> Tiger/10.4 (I think) and Lion/10.7 is the first Intel only.
> 
> System 9 (and earlier) is totally different and I was never a fan of 
> it ;-)
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> And that was also system 9. Not 10. Which was Unix not whatever odd 
> thing it was before before Steve Jobs came back on.
> 
> 
>
In reply to: Message from kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner) ([Leica] Snow Leopard Warning)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Snow Leopard Warning)
Message from john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] Snow Leopard Warning)
Message from tcharara at mac.com (Tarek Charara) ([Leica] Snow Leopard Warning)