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by duffyjp 1380 days ago
I have a PowerPC G4 Powerbook with 3+ years of uptime.

https://old.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/vhk4xy/12_pow...

I test all my shell scripts on it to ensure the maximum of cross compatibility. You can't leave the PPC folks behind.

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Ditto re: the PowerBook, and thanks for not leaving us PPC folks behind.
Just out of pure curiosity, what issues do you ever end up finding in PPC shell scripts that don't occur on other platforms?
Almost nothing to be honest. I just added a battery percentage display to the other info I show when starting a new terminal and it worked out of the box. Same for architecture which I added to make sure I knew if I was in an arm64 terminal or a x86_64 one run through Rosetta. On the G4 it happily reports "Power Macintosh."

I have had a few issues I can't recall off the top of my head just down to really old versions of stuff. There's always "the old way" to do something and it can be fun to figure out.