Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell
Chris Jones
jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue Mar 20 22:59:13 UTC 2018
> On 20 Mar 2018, at 9:27 pm, Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas at falkenhahn.com> wrote:
>
>> On 20.03.2018 at 21:58 Rainer Müller wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I do not understand why you are still running such an old
>> machine with macOS.
>
> It's retro, there doesn't have to be a rational reason for it :-)
> Besides, in the retro scene 10.4 is quite popular because it's the
> last Mac OS capable of running Mac OS 9 software.
>
> I also have a 10.6 installation which I won't update because 10.6
> has Rosetta (PPC emulation). It's vintage - it needn't make sense.
You can call these OSes ‘retro’ if you want, to make it sound good, but all they really are, are outdated and insecure.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andreas at falkenhahn.com
>
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