But thanks to the speed of the PowerPC chips and the ways Apple took advantage of it, emulation works well on . Found inside – The fastest Intel processors were delivering better performance than the fastest Motorola processors used in the Mac family. emulators and virtualizers such as Qemu, VMware, and Xen provide better compatibility. Found insideIf you are using a PowerPC system or other host architecture.
This means that you can now run your favourite PowerPC-OS on x86: Mandrake Linux (9.1), Darwin (6 + 7) and Mac OS X (10.3)! PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running many PowerPC operating systems, including pre-Intel versions of Mac OS X, Darwin and Linux.