No idea. But I remember they were very early builds, that were basically Leopard. Sort of how the early Leopard builds that run on G3s have the same UI as Tiger. So if someone were to find these early internal builds, they probably wouldn't be any better than running Leopard.
rabidz7 maintained that Apple has made a PowerPC version of every OS X release from Snow Leopard on. They then lock them up in a vault deep inside Apple HQ somewhere.
Well, I imagine they have versions that will allow you to run Catalina and before on an Apple I and Apple II. There'd also be a version of OS9 that will boot and run natively on the new Mac Pro.Well Apple did have X86 versions of OSX from the start...so you can see where his thinking came from but would they be keeping under wraps now, ARM, Power8, Power9 or 10
I'd imagine that more realistically they maintained a PPC version of at least SL and maybe Lion 10.7, probably seeing how well they fared vs their current intel lineup. At the time it would've been POWER8 probably? unless they were using freescales dual core G4 based CPUs.
No thanks. It doesnt run and crash with the same error as the Finder. I scanned the HDD for errors and well... Its old as the PBG4 and has lots of faults. Today it doesnt even boot, on its own, seems like its failing. Time for SSD upgrade
Actually there is a lot of source code of the 10.6 but there is a catch. Endianness of the source code is for Intel and there is some inline assembler so... (HINT: I dont know Assembler)
Its very possible if not the case, our beloved Steve Jobs stated that there was Intel version of every OS for the whole time... So... Its same like with S*ny. I work for them, in the Br*via TV segment. They also have a TON of software that enables their low end TVs do the same things as their high-end TV(which are in price range of 2000-12000€) so I strongly believe that there are some version of newer OSes for PPC but I suppose they require more raw power than G5 QUAD can deliver. Like with the S*ny TVs, the dirt cheap TV will do everything like the 3000€ TV BUT! For example YouTube... It runs but loads and runs like sh*t, but it works.Well, I imagine they have versions that will allow you to run Catalina and before on an Apple I and Apple II. There'd also be a version of OS9 that will boot and run natively on the new Mac Pro.
Apple just doesn't let this stuff off the premises though, you know.
...which I'm still pipe-dreaming about them seeing the light of day someday.
I'd totally use that, at least for fun. Maybe as a daily if there was good software support.Just imagine how stupidly fast an x86 build of OS 9 would be on today's hardware
I'm also sure this absolutely never happened. The decision to ditch PPC was probably made in 2004.
I'd say its perfectly possible, even if it was just to test to see how far their new OS versions could go on older hardware done by a curious engineer (I know I would do that if I were a software engineer at Apple during that time and able to perform such a test).
More unlikely things have happened
I'd say that neither person isn't based in reality, they're just considering different sides of the equation.
As I said, I think there are some version of PPC but not all of them, maybe like 3 or 4 and then nothing more. So nobody any thought on my RAM idea?
I think everybody is trying do defend their own opinion
And im just throwing my ideas in the air hoping someone will catch on them.
I would say that's because OP has proven results (such as unsupported Java versions getting installed per his instructions). Unlike a former member that only TALKED about the wild ideas he had while demanding we all provide him with logicboard pictures.