Sorry to bump a 6-year-abandoned thread, but assuming this isn't against the forum rules, I just figured I'd provide some additional info for the curious.
When the alleged Apple employee benjamin747 was talking of "version 10.0", he did NOT mean Mac OS X 10.0 (the original OS X release), but rather DARWIN version 10.0, whose corresponding OS X release is 10.6 Snow Leopard. A point which everyone in this thread seemed to miss. To add more to the confusion, it seems benjamin747 himself was oblivious to people making that mistake, and thought when people were talking of OS X 10.0 being PPC-compatible, he mistook that statement as if people were talking of Darwin (rather than OS X)'s 10.0 kernel, claiming it's PPC-incompatible.
Also, just for the curious, the Wikipedia Darwin page (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) ) mentions the following regarding Darwin 10.x (core base for Snow Leopard):
- End of official support for PPC architecture (although several fat binaries, such as Kernel, still contain PPC images)
Just thought I'd throw that out there. That statement did not seem to fit with what benjamin747 said, though, when he called Snow Leopard's kernel PPC-incompatible (which should be the same kernel used by Darwin, stated to be compatible on that Wikipedia entry).
I was hoping people could already fully run Darwin 10.x through the help of the PureDarwin project (
http://www.puredarwin.org ), but sadly that is not the case (not even Darwin 9.x, which corresponds to OS X 10.5.x Leopard). Because if so, it'd be a bit clearer the
extent of the work that would still be necessary in order to make Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard natively run without problems (not counting built-in Intel app incompatibility, at least at first) on a PowerPC Mac.
At the very least, PureDarwin is (supposedly) still an active-ish project.
(For reference, Darwin 10.x's binaries can still be found at Apple's website, under macOS 10.6, on
https://opensource.apple.com.)
EDIT: Likely relevant:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/running-snow-leopard-on-a-powerpc-mac.2058856/ (Just noticed that thread.)
