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by eurleif 4062 days ago
Not only did it enable Boot Camp, it also enabled third party Windows VMs like Parallels and Virtual box, and third party Windows API reimplementations (namely Wine)
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schappim 4062 days ago
We already had 3rd party emulators running VMs on PowerPC (and they were slow as molasses), what Intel allowed was 3rd party VMs to run FAST!
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pdpi 4062 days ago
We had emulators, not VMs.
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shiggerino 4062 days ago
Was there never any native virtualization on the PPC chips, or were there just no software written for it? I guess there was never much demand among Mac users to virtualize on PPC.
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