Q: Mac OS X, background maintenance tasks
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Mar 12, 2014 4:21 PMby seventy one,MichaelLAX
You do go on. My statement was not misleading and certainly not false.
I said, and stand by, 'They cannot be run on Mac OSs higher than 10.6.8.' Plain English; no ifs, no buts, no unlesses.
Indeed, if there is a falsehood it lies lies in your introduction of some bastardised version of Snow Leopard as if it was the norm. When of course, it is no such thing. Yes, you riled me sufficiently to respond this time, but not again.
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Mar 12, 2014 6:48 PMby MlchaelLAX,baltwo wrote:
run Snow Leopard in virtualization
which implies that the PPC apps are running on Snow Leopard, no matter how Snow Leopard is being run. That's why seventy one considers your responses as being pedantic. I agree with his assessment.
baltwo: thank you for jumping in here! Your prejudice in favor of continued use of Mac OS X Snow Leopard to the exclusion of all future releases of OS X (such as Lion, Mt. Lion and Mavericks) is well documented on this forum.
Three years ago, when Lion was first introduced without Rosetta, many users of PPC apps were shocked to discover that PPC apps would not run in Lion. The problem continued to multiply as further events caused users to migrate off of Snow Leopard: the cancellation of MobileMe and its replacement with iCloud, Mountain Lion and now the offering of "free" Mavericks.
Initially, the solution was simple: either upgrade your software to a version compatible with Intel (or find a suitable replacement piece of software) or partition your hard drive (or add an external drive) and install Snow Leopard with Rosetta into it and "dual-boot" when running PowerPC apps were needed.
Then came the introduction of new Macs that could no long boot Snow Leopard, so PPC app users who could not obtain an Intel update or suitable substitute had NO solution to their woes!
While the theory of virtualization of Snow Leopard was available from "day one" of the release of Lion, it was viewed as somewhat controversial in the "early days" of the abandonment of Rosetta; i.e. 2011.
Nevertheless, it provided a solution, usually the only viable solution, for someone such as a user of Appleworks Databases or Macromedia's Freehand MX on a new Mac!
All of which is both well known to seventy one (as I have seen these issues discussed in detail on threads which has his posts) and yet is completely unreleated to the OP's post on this thread!
So why did seventy one choose to go out of his way to post his incorrect and misleading post that:
It [Snow Leopard] is also the last one to be able to use PPC apps. So it would be necessary to check your most needed third party apps to see what may have to be bought again.
And, after he confused the OP with the concept of "PPC apps" he muddied the thread further by opining:
PPC apps are better known as Power PC apps which invariably require a Rosetta platform. They cannot be run on Mac OSs higher than 10.6.8.
Without giving my opinion about whether or not, seventy one should have confused this post further, I simply corrected the misconception that he left the OP (and all other readers of this post); that is, there are ways to run their PowerPC apps in a life after Snow Leopard.
I am sorry that seventy one chose to respond in the way he did, rather than just acknowledge his omission.
As far as being accused of being pedantic, the Webster-Merrian online dictionary defines a pedant as:
one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge
To one who has a large library of Appleworks Database files, Freehand MX files, loves the use of the email client Eudora, or still needs to access their Palm files, my correction of seventy one's inaccurate presentation of the current state to be able to run PowerPC apps in a post-Snow Leopard world is clearly NOT pedantic!
To someone like you; who continues to be an evangilist for the continued use of Snow Leopard, I can understand why you would come to the conclusion that my point was mere minutiae. To others: not so much!
