"Transitive Technologies confirmed Tuesday that it is providing Apple with technology that allows old Macintosh software programs to run on computers based on Intel rather than IBM chips. Transitive's technology will be part of software called Rosetta, which will work for current Macintosh OS X programs that run on PowerPC systems but not for older programs that run on OS 8 and OS 9 software, according to Apple," reports the Mercury News.
"Transitive's technology is the result of years of effort. In 2000, Transitive was formed by researchers at the University of Manchester in England. They had developed a way to do "binary translation" at high speeds. Transitive has raised $24 million to date."
Comment: This piece makes two useful points: (1) No, your old Mac OS 8/9 software won't run via Rosetta; and (2) TT reckons it gets "roughly 70% to 80% of the speed at which it ran on the original computer" by using about 25% more memory.
That should be good news for Crucial, particularly since Apple usually makes a point of fitting only half the memory its computers actually need.
