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by KerrAvon 1120 days ago
(Mac OS 8/9 was never fully PowerPC native.)
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astrange 1120 days ago
Because some 3rd party software either wasn't PPC, or hadn't actually tested their PPC support so it couldn't be used, or in some cases interpreting the 68k code was actually faster due to cache sizes.
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